Pablo

“Intermediaries are part of the solution to the age-old problem of connecting people with one another—but they become part of the problem when they grow so powerful that they can act as gatekeepers who can usurp the relationship between the two sides of their markets.”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

“This is the enshittifier’s credo: “We’re just doing the thing that makes life worse for you so we can make life better for us. The socializing”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

“By downgrading the security of Apple customers who have friends who use a rival product, Apple hopes to recruit its customers to serve as high-pressure sales agents for its products. In other words, Apple is making its service worse for its customers in order to benefit its shareholders. Or, put more plainly, Apple enshittified iMessage.”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

“The revolving door. The overwhelming majority of industry execs who rotate into public service are henhouse-guarding foxes willing to help their former employers at public expense.”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It