Silicon Valley Values Shift To Customersploitation 244
theodp writes "Bill Davidow is the real Silicon Valley deal. Commenting on how Silicon Valley has changed over the decades, Davidow is not impressed, dishing out harsh words for Facebook, Apple, Google, and others. 'When corporate leaders pursue wealth in the winner-take-all Internet environment,' concludes Davidow, 'companies dance on the edge of acceptable behavior. If they don't take it to the limit, a competitor will. That competitor will become the dominant supplier — one monopoly will replace another. And when you engage in these activities you get a different set of Valley values: the values of customer exploitation.'"
Re:Customerspliotation? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, it wasn't the Internet (particularly). The portmanteau bastardized blechery in the summary and title here aren't in TFA at all.
It was just world-famous Slashdot editorial practice at work. They can't rein in dupes, create an unbiased and non-sensationalist headline, or fix actual errors in copy from submitter (or themselves)... but the sure as hell can coin pointless and cringe-inducing neologisms.
Slashdot editing at its shining best.
Re:"Customersploitation" (Score:5, Funny)
Sufferin' succotash, my brain will *only* imagine the word "Customerspliotation" as being spoken by Daffy Duck in a spray of saliva.
Re:Customerspliotation? (Score:5, Funny)
Or a neoportmanteaulogism.
Re:Customerspliotation? (Score:5, Funny)
portmanteau bastardized
Is that something one would do with hot grits?