Garmin CEO Hints More Paywalls And Enshittification Are Coming, Falsely Claims Users Love It

Garmin CEO Hints More Paywalls And Enshittification Are Coming, Falsely Claims Users Love It

We recently noted how device maker Garmin had decided to follow in the footsteps of Google's Fitbit, and begin putting basic features behind an annoying subscription paywall to goose revenues. Garmin's new "premium" Garmin+ tier takes several features users already enjoyed for free, put them behind a $7 per month paywall, and called it innovation.Users are…

On the Retreat of the Enshittification of University Bureaucracy — Crooked Timber

More than a month ago, I agreed to an offer to be a visiting scholar at a private US university next year. This was no simple matter because of obligations to my own family and (somewhat more unexpectedly) my department. I have made no public announcement on it yet not because I am especially personally worried by the Trump administration’s policies toward higher education, but rather because I am still completing (electronic) paperwork and back…