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One example is not indicative of the larger picture
by wmichelin 9y ago
One example is not indicative of the larger picture
- Pulcinella 9y agoApp.net lost to Twitter. Netscape lost to Microsoft. Yahoo lost to Google. Ouya lost to Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Coin lost to existing payment cards...
- lumisota 9y agoThe sentence that follows the quote is "So unless you discover a competitor with the sort of lock-in that would prevent users from choosing you, don't discard the idea.". Most of the winners in the examples you gave had insurmountable lock-in (network effects, etc).
- gruturo 9y agoApp.net lost to itself. I know of exactly one person who decided to pay money, and it's my friend who'd buy/try anything once. Try to charge money in a space that's free, in return for..... I don't really know tbh, is a recipe for suicide. It may have worked in the 2 weeks of the novelty effect, and that's it.
- visakanv 9y agoThere was a period of time where I used both MySpace and Facebook, and preferred MySpace – but the user experience kept getting shittier, it kept getting laggier, spammier... MySpace killed itself