Enshittification is the gradual, systematic decline in the quality of a product, service or digital platform caused by profit seeking, lock-in, monopoly, maximize short term profits before eventually collapsing or stagnating, private equity, extraction for shareholders.
Mobile apps are over.
*Replace mobile apps to web apps for healthy eyes.
*Build our own mobilephones and smartphones.
*De-enshittify the entire tech world.
Adobe => ArtCraft including PhotoCraft, VectorCraft, FilmCraft, LigthCraft, EffectCraft, DesignCraft, PdfCraft,
open source apps,
runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, Web Browser
Adobe may access your content through both automated and manual methods.
Fee buried in the fineprint.
Cancelling made deliberately hard. Difficult cancelling.
No competition app. Monopoly. A lack of real market competition, driven by relaxed antitrust enforcement, means users have nowhere better to go when a service gets worse.
No cheaper plan.
No free tiers.
Tie up users. Lock-in and legal barriers: Digital rights management (DRM) and laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) stop users from reverse engineering software, fixing their own hardware (such as smart appliances or tractors), or building alternative apps to bypass platform spying or tracking.
Difficult for a company to switch tools overnight, plug-ins, pipelines, training, decades of files.
Charging rent forever.
Raising the subscription price.
Making you hard to leave the app.
You can't win by trapping people.
You have to be the one where customers would choose anyway.
Rent it => Own it, you owned it forever.
Subscription => Purchase one off, master collection, boxed, yours, forever.
You die: the landlord can put the rent up whenever he or she likes.
You are using software you paid for.
Imagine car company ringing you up to say driving your old car might get you sued.
Microsoft => DeckCraft for presentation, GridCraft for spreadsheet.
CadCraft for hardware design.
SoundCraft for sound editor.
The app is free but open source company makes money from AI images, AI video credits, cloud storage.
Only download from the official project page.
Don't trust written alpha code app with a client deadline.
Keep backups.
Before paying corporation, check your paying plan so that you can cancel risk-free.
A menu structure is a "method of operation”. Not copyrightable.
Corporation cannot try to own the "look and feel" of a desktop.
Copying how software talks to other software is "fair use".
Taking a product apart to build a compatible one can be fair use.
Photo file format specifications are published.
Clean room app rebuild with no other corporation code.
A free photo editor written from scratch.
Never taken to court.
Free photo app lookalikes already exist: Gimp since 1996, Photopea in your browser, Krita, Inkscape.
No uploading your files to corporation servers.
Privacy-first, client-side app tools.
Open source licenses can't be taken back.
Paying open source tech is freedom.
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