- Your point was most of my read on the article.
Yet the root problem seems structural: the misplaced incentives of the quarterly earnings-driven stock market. Short term gains most often win over long term innovation.
- Yet they were about far more than just vacuums!
In the 2000s, no one was doing what they were doing.
- Missing the point.
iRobot was far more than vacuums until they weren't.
Read the article. The author spells it out.
I lived it. I read about them and bought a Roomba back when they first sold them. They had so much in the pipeline, consumer and otherwise. Hell, they even had a STEM kit programmable Roomba.
History repeats itself because people forget.
- The top comment completely misses the point.
iRobot was remarkably innovative until they were enshittified decades before the term was coined.
- and perhaps this new initiative for ads in the App Store is an attempt to replace the money lost by Europe and Japan allowing alternate app stores
- In the US? They're currently treated like animals.
I reassert: voting with your feet is a privilege.
- And there's also moderator control?
Yup. Accountable.
- "Vote with your feet" is a privileged assertion
- I know this is a shitpost but someone has to say it:
Yo dawg I hear you like downdetector so...
- There have been ads in Apple News for years now. There were not, at its outset.
And I hate them.
Yes. Steve would take a giant dump all over this nonsense.
Apple is increasingly at risk of similar enshittification as Google.
- Imagine wealth as a virus.
If inheritance isn't there to prune out variants, the virus mutates and propagates.
People who start off wealthy go on to accumulate and centralize even more wealth.
- Indeed. It seems like splitting hairs. It says that their upper level management made a lot of bad calls about headcount growth. And, as always, it's the people below the decision makers who pay the price.
- Because at some point the Executive Branch has no more budget left to spend because Congress can't approve a budget?
- Hedging their bets against a potential sudden downturn in consumption of their product, e.g., an AI bubble exploding? If they invest heavily in production capacity only to find that there is not commensurate consumption, then they'll have lost badly.
- Why is this flagged? This is super relevant to HN!
- I am VERY glad to hear this. And thank you for your work.
- Thank you. Very kind.
- Of course this gets downvoted. HN is after all first about capital. Startups.
Probably both.