• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Microsoft is a public company, which means it is driven by investors. Investors demand the promise of constant growth in a finite market that they’ve already been dominating (for now), which forces Microsoft to resort to “innovation” in ways to be anti consumer and in flashy features that sound cool and futuristic in an investor presentation but that no user really wants.

    When you dominate a market, you stop selling your product to the consumer and start selling it to investors. It is an unbelievably wasteful system if you think of it, wasting tons of resources into making a product worse.

    • BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca
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      2 days ago

      They’ll go the same way Intel currently is at some point. Hopefully Linux development stays stable and we don’t wind up with an AMD equivalent picking up the pieces and continuing the enshittification