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My sentiments exactly. While your at it, stop making operating systems, Microsoft won.
by aneth 16y ago
My sentiments exactly.
While your at it, stop making operating systems, Microsoft won.
- rimantas 16y agoWrong analogy. Several SE can have access to the same data (documents on the web) and the new one which offers most relevant to your query subset of those can win. Also there is a very little switching cost. Now the new social network won't have the main ingredient - the network itself. To get the number of users that facebook has is not an easy task. Swithching is tricky, unless all your FB friends are on the new network too. I am not saying it is impossible. It is just much much more difficult than launching a new SE.
- aneth 16y agoI think the point is that just because there is an dominant player in an industry, doesn't mean they will remain dominant. How easy it is to disrupt a market varies, but they all will change over time. Facebook's open graph actually makes it much more likely there will be parallel networks to Facebook that could eventually become primary. For instance, if Google had Facebook Connect as a login method, they could quickly assemble the entire social graph and potentially beat Facebook. That's likely why Facebook is in a tiff with Ping - Apple has the capability of replacing Facebook some day.