In the model of the article, is YouTube closer to Apple's iOS App Store, or is it closer to Uber? On first glance, the "suppliers" seem external and commodity.

In the model of the article, is YouTube closer to Apple's iOS App Store, or is it closer to Uber? On first glance, the "suppliers" seem external and commodity. Google gives slightly more deference to established content providers, but not much Re: YouTube: Apparently, this deference is directly proportional to economic power. Small creators have basically no power. Large creators have some. Corporations have enough power to make demands and cause YouTube to change things overnight. Some upstart should make note of this huge class of long-tail marginal creators become serfs. http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html Ultimately, the future culture will come out of this edge of the culture. YouTube and Google seem to have reached a point, where one can use their culture/groupthink against them, and they will steadfastly refuse to change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals