• HobbitFoot
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    11 month ago

    Is there really a need to extend functionality like there was 10 years ago?

    • @thequickben@lemm.ee
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      31 month ago

      Yes. That’s at least half of the work I do on a daily basis. How else do companies in the same market compete with each other if they cannot add on to functionality and remain static? That’s a quick way to lose market share to your competition.

      • HobbitFoot
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        01 month ago

        We’re at a point of effective monopoly and vastly increased costs of creating competition.

        The spigot of free money has been turned off, so most projects today need to have a planned out ROI, which is why enshitification has become such a big thing recently. Improvement for competition sake is out the door unless the incumbent is weak or a jump is needed as the existing revenue stream is collapsing.

        • @thequickben@lemm.ee
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          1 month ago

          What are you going on about?

          I don’t work in a space with a monopoly.

          My employer doesn’t have free money. They compete in a huge market and earn money while doing so.

          Not every company has the business model you described. The world would not run if that was the case.

          • HobbitFoot
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            11 month ago

            Yeah, but a lot of the discussion has been about those companies given how well they pay and how dominant they are in the industry.