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Software keeps sliding downhill.

Sure, there's enshittification. But there's this other thing too.

I mentioned how the app ecosystem for the Palm was so incredibly rich. To this day, I have trouble finding applications that are REMOTELY as powerful as the ones I was accustomed to using on the Palm.

But Palm died in the birth pains of the iPhone and of Android. When that happened, there was a kind of land rush of developers to make new apps for these two new ecologies. While some Palm developers did pivot, very few Palm apps were directly ported to iPhone or Android. Instead, it was developers who had no idea what was on the Palm developing, de novo, for the iPhone and Android.

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