Duolingo's Savage Capitalism, Less Free Every Day
Hello, here I wanted to make a quick video about this application, this famous application that is Duolingo, I have been using it for a long time, so well there are many things that have changed little by little since a while ago like a year and a half, 2 years and I wanted to make a quick summary because Well I just wanted to do it but obviously it is not a criticism to make the application, I continue using it, I think it is excellent for one to practice quickly in an educational way but anyway I do not like very much the path that it is taking and I simply wanted to make this video why do I say this when this application started, even here it tells you it is a quick, fun and free way to learn a new language, that was a bit the reason for the application, obviously it was financed with some payment plans that I think they placed later and also with advertising like almost everyone does here, I also see this a bit reflected in what Evernote was or what Evernote is, which was also previously a free application to put notes and such and that little by little they were closing it more and more and more and more, that is to say that if you did not pay they limited the number of notebooks to only between one two then they closed it even more that you could only authenticate on two devices and a while you got a modal and well it was horrible to use the application and I for example that I already talked about this in another video I migrated to what would be Google keet that does not torment me in that way and in the end I just want to save a lot of this no longer to be paying a subscription of $ 100 a month a year to keep evernote here it is happening to me a little bit the same
Again each application does what it wants but anyway I also have the right as a consumer you also have the right to expose yourself if you do not like something very much here I can show you excuse me a little how bad it can be seen I hope it can be seen there is what I have right now so at hand I also wanted to see it so that you can see that it is a real test, that is to say that it is not a capture that I took there I edited it okay I think it was not displayed and I am trying again in the same way there what you can see is my streak it is four figures Although they know exactly I have more than 8 years of streak, that is to say 8 years at least that you can see that I am using the application and there is also an option that is the last one, this is an Android phone and a Pixel that you can see that it appears disabled, which is a bit what I want to comment on now to finish this, the first thing is that before I could use or it could be used based on the languages that were implemented, which were few and little by little they were adding more, there was no such heart system, therefore you could fail as many times as you wanted and simply try again, they didn't even close the lesson on you.
Heart system in a stab to our heart
Yes then they implemented the heart system which I found horrible because if you are learning you are going to make a lot of mistakes so with the heart system precisely I did not advance and apart from that it was more frustrating because to recharge to recharge a heart it takes 5 hours and if not you have to go through the checkout or consume it there through some crystals as if it were a video game, which I found horrible also they have an option there that is the one you see disabled which is the last one that was so that you practicing in this case they searched or returned a little to the original scheme you pleading to practice without losing hearts and in this case for that practice menu I obtained a heart also every so often before you would get an advertisement at least on Android so that you could recover a heart which seems good to me in that case at least I could continue at least with relative ease although it was more difficult to practice your lessons to learn a language although as I told you a lesson has at least like 15 questions and well if you are learning something new for example I wanted to learn French or Portuguese before I made more mistakes in the lessons based on the hearts that I had therefore I could never advance in English I have a better level and I can advance without so much problem but for a person who is learning from scratch I think it will cost them so much I say Japanese which was another of the languages I was practicing there and in the end I abandoned them because either I pay the subscription or they don't have it or they can't advance and the worst thing is that even if you change languages you will always have the same level of hearts, that is to say if you lose them all in the practice with English and with Japanese when you come to the English one you don't have them you don't have hearts you have to wait to go through the checkout or whatever and well that is right now as who says the problem that they went from being a completely free application to the system that is currently and the worst of all is not that either but now every so often I get lessons to look for.
Premium lessons
Here too this is something more or less new Oh no it's that I already passed the level well they tell you to practice with Max let me see if I can go back to before Well I think it doesn't appear to me precisely in these in the block of choices as if it were agir in this menu it appears to me to practice with Max and to practice with Max I have to pay a subscription so what I want to get across is that they are becoming more and more commercial and little by little they are breaking exactly what they say here that it is a free application so that you can learn a language and every time they are there it is grinding you down a bit like evern I think that is going to be the next thing that every time you are going to see dialogs that you subscribe that you subscribe you subscribe until well you get tired and you go look for another application like I did with evernote another curious thing is that it seems that things in Apple or in the Apple ecosystem are more expensive more expensive and different Look at that here I hope it is seen if not you will have to take a screenshot right now for example I have three hearts and it appears to me that to renew them I have to pay 350 crystals which is the form of credit that one has there and obviously those crystals are earned little by little as you complete lessons or directly go through the checkout, that is, you pay in dollars or whatever here It's 350 crystals here I have the iPad Yes this thing but curiously here they should appear 500 I have not checked today but based on tests that I have done previously curiously here on iOS it is more expensive here you can see it I hope it is seen there are 500 crystals that I supposedly have to pay another curious thing that I saw this recently is that here I can see ads which is the third option to earn hearts so at least for the moment I have a way in which I can quickly recover the hearts in case I make a mistake which is normal and be able to continue advancing in the courses that I want to see here so in a few words at least to me as a consumer obviously what I am talking about duolingo seems to me every day more of a disaster and every day it is separating itself more from the slogan they had of an education among other things free to learn a new language
- Andrés Cruz
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