[b00ty4breakfast]

"good" is not important for software anymore, at least in the regular consumer market. Companies have discovered that people will just continue to accept subpar, unfinished and sometimes even partially-functioning software.

[justinclift]

"accept" is such a weird word for this, though I don't know of a better one in English.

What we seem to be experiencing is a combination of monopoly power/abuse, and regulatory/government/court capture to keep it in place.

[b00ty4breakfast]

if internet comments are any kind of indication (which they very well may not be) I've seen lots of people complaining about win11 but remaining because they can't give up playing their favorite online hero shooter. That's acceptance to me

[chillfox]

"tolerate" would be the better word to describe it

[xp84]

Agree that acceptance is irrelevant. No one has a choice, because all the “competitors” in any given niche (phone, cloud platform, PC operating system) are executing the same play. Enshittify, extract profit from ~suckers~ customers, ignore any churn because with the limited choices available there will be new suckers to replace them.

We accept this the same way we accept the air quality wherever we are.

Yes, Linux is there, but consider the barriers to the average person of truly adopting a strict Free Software life. Consider how many things in life now simply demand for you to have an Android or iOS phone. Things as simple as parking.

[anonymars]

Well, now no one has to convince anyone to shell out for upgrades because everything is a subscription. What worked perfectly well can now get replaced out from under you overnight