Niantic. And always have been

Casey Newton wrote about this a lot two years ago: https://www.platformer.news/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack/

Yeah, FOSS doesn’t have the incentive and have different ideological roots

+1 for Qobuz! Tidal firing 100 employees did not inspire confidence in their app being less shit

Check out enshittification and the rot economy. I feel like those two terms encompass pretty much what we are seeing these days