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So we can feel clever for having actually gotten adoption, rather than feeling clever for creating a wonderfully-secure new system that can't compete with the n

So we can feel clever for having actually gotten adoption, rather than feeling clever for creating a wonderfully-secure new system that can't compete with the network effect of e-mail.

tptacek 9y ago
It's possible that more bona-fide messages are sent every day with WhatsApp than with email, whose stats include (and, at least for me, are dominated by) automated transactional emails. I don't think "network effect" is as powerful an argument as you want it to be.