This shiticle has no insight whatsoever, it’s basically a composite advert for three different product/services.
This author has a very low bar for “unshittification”.
What the fuck, Ars?
A company that stops using dial home DRM because it’s costing them too much money should hardly be lauded.
If you haven’t experienced enshitification with a company, you just haven’t quite waited long enough.
Steam comes to mind. But for stock market ones yeah 100%
Anticompetitive practices with their marketshare and pricing exclusivity. Fearful of what a post Gabe steam looks like too
Based on their current management model of “desks on wheels” they’d probably be most comfortable becoming a worker-owned coop. I know I’m in dreamland, but it would be amazing if they could go that direction when Gabe is gone.
What anticompetitive practices? This normally refers to things like selling at a loss long enough to destroy fledgling competition and the like. As far as I’m aware, steam just… provides good services that other stores don’t?
I’m just hoping a VC firm doesn’t come along and hostile takeover them at some point, because that would be the death knell.
They aren’t publicly traded so put those fears to rest until Gaben dies (may that be FAR in the future), then we have to hope his successor has a similar mindset.
Doesn’t need to be publicly traded; just about anything with investors looking for a return
Yeah, the problem with enshittification is not that it is something that some companies do but that all companies are heavily incentivized to do under a lot of circumstances (enough that circumstances will come up for practically any company regularly).
UnDeshittificationMakes more sense to me if the prefix “en” is used in “enshittification”.
As someone who have used Iloks for years it baffles me that someone would say it’s not shit. Sure, cloud licensing can be much worse, but I hate those shitty usb keys
