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>Google Duo is better than Skype, Google Allo is better than Telegram. Sure, if you want to pick the weakest competitor, they're better. Duo competes with fac
by notatoad 10y ago
>Google Duo is better than Skype, Google Allo is better than Telegram.
Sure, if you want to pick the weakest competitor, they're better. Duo competes with facetime, not skype. Allo competes with WhatsApp, not Telegram.
Yes, part of what makes Google Photos good is the integration with their other products. "network effect" is a thing. But leveraging your other products is not the same thing as being an illegal monopoly. iCloud Photos has a network effect. Facebook's photo sharing product has a much larger network effect than Google's.
- kuschku 10y ago> Duo competes with facetime, not skype. Allo competes with WhatsApp, not Telegram. Yet Allo has less users than IRC, or Signal, or Telegram. And Duo has less than Skype. The network effect is very powerful, and the network effect of social contacts is stronger than the network effect of software integration.