When companies don't have to worry about users deploying self-help measures to disenshittify their products, they are freed from the constraint that prevents them indulging the impulse to shift value from their customers to themselves.
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When a business says it has "IP," it means that it has arranged its legal affairs to allow it to invoke the power of the state to control its customers, critics and competitors:
https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/
An "app" is just a web-page skinned in enough IP to make it a crime to add an ad-blocker to it. This is what Jay Freeman calls "felony contempt of business model" and it's everywhere.
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Discussion
Apple owes its existence to interoperability - its ability to clone Microsoft Office's file formats for Pages, Numbers and Keynote, which saved the company in the early 2000s - and ever since, it has devoted its existence to making sure no one ever does to Apple what Apple did to Microsoft:
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