This is on the “looking for friends” part of the app, but yeah, it’s pretty sad.

These people are looking for friends, not to date.

to the “Bumble for Friends” section of the app.

Come on, it’s in the description, you don’t even need to open the article.

I think a lot of it is also growing their market share and establishing their brand.

Which is also weird, because girlfriend can also mean a platonic female friendship.

Rather inconsistent use of language actually.

Oh, the US government is already proposing that.

I really loved Pratchett’s take on the elves, come to think of it.

Yeah, the Chinese manufacturers are out to make money, and at least we know what to expect from them.

Besides, being profitable usually means making a better product than your competitors.

This is why you give out fines with a lot of zeros to big corporate entities.

No dividend this year really puts pressure on management to not do that again.

The F35 is an amazing aircraft though, cancelling the order would probably hurt you more than them.

Most users neither know nor care what that is.

I did say private individuals, Outlook is more of a corporate product.

YouTube should be fixing their buggy mess of a YouTube app, what a disaster. Every change they make, makes it worse.

That really nails it, I think. Tech is a hobby for some, a means to an end for the vast majority.

I’ve used my share of free software. Some of it worked well, but it always felt clunky, and just never as straightforward to use as a paid product.

But sure, I couldn’t possibly have reached that conclusion on my own, it’s obviously the marketing.

Christ this is such a Lemmy take.

The other option is users just not using tech at all.

I’ve said this before here, but techy people vastly overestimate both the ability and the patience of the typical user, and it’s the reason so few people use FOSS products.

Products from big tech aimed at private individuals are designed to be as simple to use as possible, which is why they’re so popular.

Why Hinge? Are you thinking of Grindr?

Also, dozens of people isn’t enough to make a significant blip.

Getting called ignorant by a Saddam apologist is… Something.

That doesn’t surprise me, the US in particular is very good at supporting their future enemies.