Emily Price Language learning app Duolingo will mothball its Welsh course at the end of this month meaning it will no longer be edited or updated. The app uses game-like experiences to help learners practice and improve their language skills. At one point Welsh was the biggest growing language course on the platform. A group […]
Enshittification strikes again.
It’s becoming clearer and clearer that for-profit companies are not the way to drive quality in the tech sector long term. That they even torch their own products to try speaks volumes.
FTFY. For profit companies are not a good way to drive quality and innovation long term anywhere. It works short term as small start ups try to be better than the market leaders to get a market share, but then they become a market leader and the best way to make profits is no longer to innovate. Capitalists will tell you that in an ideal world capitalism would drive other small companies to innovate to become market leaders and thus improve things but because of the disproportionate power capital gives in a capitalist system, the market leaders can squash all but the best new innovators, leading to an overall reduction in innovation or worse a reduction in quality because it;s no longer needed to drive profits
Its almost like we can do better than capitalism