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Bending Spoons is quietly executing a private equity playbook on consumer apps: buy beloved tools, jack up prices by 300-1000%, and ignore the outrage. The costumer revolt is a feature—it filters out low-paying users, leaving only captive, price-insensitive customers. Your loyalty is the trap. The real cost of the app economy is the dependency you can’t escape.
The race to own the Attachment Economy isn’t won by the best AI model. It’s won by the first company to make a machine you can’t imagine living without. And the most unsettling part? OpenAI might ship Apple’s own future faster than Apple can approve it.
Stripe quietly tripled the price of its Radar fraud prevention service from $0.02 to $0.07 per screening. This isn’t a cost adjustment — it’s a strategic move to extract more margin from merchants locked into its ecosystem. Fraud prevention is becoming a variable tax on digital commerce, and Stripe is exploiting its position to hike rates without adding value. If you’re a Stripe user, your margins are next.