TL;DR: Steve Jobs shut down efforts to incorporate advertising in Apple's software, because it would enshittify[a] the customer experience.
Everyone here on HN likely agrees that he was right never to cross that red line.
The path from "great user experience" to "enshittified user experience" consists of crossing such red lines, one after the other, for short-term profit.
Everyone here on HN likely agrees that he was right never to cross that red line.
The path from "great user experience" to "enshittified user experience" consists of crossing such red lines, one after the other, for short-term profit.
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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification