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Google fucked a whole generation with Chromebooks, and now they're fucking the next generation with AI
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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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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I think it's a bit harsh to lay all the blame on google, considering the iPad exists.
Same shit different bucket.
I'd argue the iPad is the bigger offender personally. They're blaming Chromebooks because that's often what schools provided, but the same exact timing existed before with iMacs in classrooms all through the 90s and early 00s for millennials despite Windows being by far the more common real world OS they would need to know in the workplace.
But when it comes to portable devices the iPhone and iPad are king, that's what young people want and often what they're given. And those operate nearly exactly the same as a Chromebook. Toss everything into a cloud bucket, no user-facing folder structures to learn, everything locked down with limited access and customization. A take it or leave it approach to user interaction.
I have user-facing folder structures on every iOS device I own. What exactly is the extent of your personal experience using iOS?
My experience with iOS devices is mostly non-jailbroken devices, where the file system is not accessible.
A very limited scope of the filesystem instead of exposing the whole thing. Android does the same thing, and so does every system that doesn't allow the user to have root access.
Ohh…the files are in the computer
Not trying to be rude but the files app is absolutely not giving you anything close to full access to your devices file system. It's an abstraction over the actual file system if anything.
Yeah there's a lot more visible just by connecting via USB but it's still not good.
Thats already more effort than most people will put forth