Youtube, twitter, and reddit have obviously been in the news a lot recently, but every day business applications also seem to just keep getting worse. Got new PCs at work which means version updates, and pretty much everything we use (autocad, adobe acrobat, and ms office, mainly) all seem to run much slower, despite the computers having substantially higher specs. Love that I can’t use any old versions or alternatives because they refuse to grant me admin access.

I love capitalist innovation! Why make things better when you could just make them worse and charge more?

  • jabrd [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Every service needs an app and you can’t use their service without the app and the app was put together by an intern that was actively being sexually harassed by the CFO. And if a company has had an app that’s functioned for 5 years they’ll update it now every 8 months in a way that either breaks all functionality or puts in an awful redesign that has basically the same outcome

    • Azarova [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      And if a company has had an app that’s functioned for 5 years they’ll update it now every 8 months in a way that either breaks all functionality or puts in an awful redesign that has basically the same outcome

      I’m still upset about this happening to the weatherunderground app years ago, it was perfect for my needs and then they fucked it all up for no reason.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I tell idiot neoliberals this all the time. Yes capitalism rewards innovation more than any system in history. That’s true. But the innovation it rewards is “innovative new ways to make profit” not “innovative new ways to make the world better.” Innovation for innovations sake is worthless and the rapid enshitification of the Internet is a great example