• @redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    361 year ago

    The new term seems very… reasonable. They took the lesson to the heart and won’t try to alter the deal again in the future, right? Right?

    • @phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      151 year ago

      They obliterated most of the goodwill they had and long term this stupid greedy move probably will have cost them more than the change could ever have gotten them. This is what quick buck exec’s van do to a company

      • @Grumpy@sh.itjust.works
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        61 year ago

        Cost them more? I don’t think people realize Unity’s been working at a loss every year since the beginning, burning investor money. Just shutting down is quite frankly more profitable than continuing as is.

          • @Grumpy@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            Almost every tech company functions in this manner today.

            Modern tech cycle is basically keep operating at a loss to increase userbase. And then one of the 3 scenarios happen. 1. Most obvious, they run out of investor money and make drastic unpopular changes to make profit as seen here. 2. Sell company to an even bigger tech company, who will then most likely kill it too. 3. Become google/meta/etc. themselves, which is the least likely scenario.