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> It's just enshittification.

That’s not what enshittification means.

Somehow its usage has quickly devolved from a very specific pattern companies used to squeeze “value” out of their customers over time into just “something getting worse in any way” or even just “something I don’t like now but I did before” which is not at all the point.



Liquid Glass has worse performance implications, which is bad for older devices with slow processors, and older devices with older batteries. It's also very difficult to use on older devices with smaller screens, like the 2022 iPhone SE. Further, Apple stopped making it possible to upgrade to minor releases for security patches.

All these give someone a reason to replace their otherwise perfectly-working iPhone sooner.


Last time pointed that out here, Cory Doctorow himself popped up to tell me it's okay, we don't need to word police other people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776712


Man I really disliked him for creating that word that got so overused that I saw it in practically every single comment thread this past year. Now I dislike him even more for actively promoting its overuse. Ugh.


So let's run this shit into the ground then until it's meaningless. Got it.


It’s the enshittification of the word, to use the new definition




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