Chris Berube

You have ventilators.

One more example is about the device you are probably listening to this on right now.

So let's say you have an iPhone.

I'm sure you've experienced some version of this as someone who owns an iPhone.

If you need to repair an iPhone, there's lots of cases where you cannot get a third-party replacement part.

Like those will just not be interoperable with an Apple device.

So Apple urges you to buy an Apple replacement part and then go to the Apple store or go to an Apple authorized repair person.

So to recap, this is the enshitification of things, right?

You buy something that has software in it.

The software makes it hard to get the thing repaired by some third party.

You have to go to the manufacturer and they will jack up the price, right?

And perhaps they don't let you use third party parts.

So they're just profiting off people because we're stuck, right?

We have this stuckness going on.

So this is a vicious cycle.

So, Roman, now that I have gone through the problem of and shitification with you, where would you say your anger level is at as of now?

Roman, I feel your pain and I have some good news.

We are going to bring your anger level down a little bit, hopefully, because there are people who are trying to make things better.

There are people fighting back and trying to outlaw this form of incitification.

Excellent.