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Klaus-Gerd Giesen

#BendingSpoons is a #PrivateEquity firm. #Komoot #bike users should download their already ridden or planned #tracks as #GPX files as soon as possible before they have to pay a lot for them (or even to get a #map update). Better alternatives to Komoot: #Routing with #Brouter , #Cyclers , #VisuGPX or #Valhalla ; (free) navigation with #OrganicMaps or #CycleTravel . Everything else (photos, etc.) is anyway a #socialmedia feature.

#BikeTooter #fahrrad #vélo #cyclotourisme
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road.cc · “Totally blindsided”: Cuts and job losses expected at Komoot after route planning app bought by Italian tech firm infamous for mass layoffsKomoot employees say they have been “blindsided” by Bending Spoons’ purchase, which comes after the brand introduced a new premium subscription for users to send routes to bike computers
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Oskar im Keller

@aral

For those who read German, #Heise gives some more connections in an article from last August.

Tl;dr: #BendingSpoons, the Italian company who took over #StreamYard, also bought #Hopin, #Meetup, #Issuu and #WeTransfer, and already a while ago #Evernote.

social.anoxinon.de/@JohnnyThan

heise.de/news/Bending-Spoons-k

social.anoxinon.de - MastodonJohnnyThan (@JohnnyThan@social.anoxinon.de)Okay, ich war ja bisher ein bisschen Fan von #Streamyard. Jetzt wollen die meine Accountkosten ungefragt einfach verdoppeln, ich muss Opt-Out machen, um das zu vermeiden. Das ist für mich ein absoluter Vertrauensbruch. Habe kurz recherchiert, aha, Streamyard ist aufgekauft worden. (https://www.heise.de/news/Bending-Spoons-kauft-weiter-ein-WeTransfer-und-Streamyard-neu-im-Portfolio-9820274.html) Das erklärts: Der #Enshittification Prozess hat also bereits begonnen. Ich suche ein neues Streamingstudio. #obs_studio ?
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Mark Gardner

#Meetup has been acquired by #BendingSpoons, whose business model is to buy solid apps from others, then “optimize” their monetization by pushing exorbitant weekly auto-renewing subscriptions (e.g., #Filmic, #Focos, #Remini, #Splice, #30DayFitness) and/or suddenly nerfing their free plans to get people to pony up for said subscriptions (#Evernote).

I expect Meetup to suffer similar #enshittification.

meetup.com/blog/a-new-home-for

Meetup Blog · A New Home for Meetup - Meetup BlogMeetup will soon be welcomed into the Bending Spoons portfolio of digital technology products. In this post, the Bending Spoons CEO, Luca Ferrari, discusses the acquisition.
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