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[–] 121 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Innovation these days is just "what if I was able to somehow insert myself into this already functioning service and skim some money off it".

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago

    Corporations don’t invent new products or improve existing ones anymore. The R&D needed costs too much along with creating the tooling to manufacture and distribute products. Usually quite the opposite, they look how to cheapen products’ construction and durability while charging more to increase the profit margin.

    It’s far easier to make a product a subscription, or desirable features a subscription, sell commonly needed add-ons separately at ridiculously inflated costs (like printer ink or power tool batteries) or as you said, insert middle-men to extract fees for the convenience of their existing between the customer and the desired product.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    And now AI is inserting itself in the insertion!

    Just ask AI to make your Door Dash order for your Pizza delivery driver.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Using your Account® Account™ (one Account™ for all your accounts) in the App® App™ (one App™ for all your apps)!

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