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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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iCloud for sure basically ropes you into a subscription if you want to do the backups with them as the free-tier is basically peanuts for space, but outside that (unless that's what you mean) I don't think they have any subscriptions that are really opt-out?
I absolutely agree they get you roped into the ecosystem though, the hardware cohesion makes it difficult to purchase outside of their line.