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The "law of the pipe" strikes again. No pipe company wants to be in the pipe business--they always want to be in the content business. At the first opportunity,
by dreamcompiler 8y ago
The "law of the pipe" strikes again. No pipe company wants to be in the pipe business--they always want to be in the content business. At the first opportunity, they will start creating their own content and deprecating everybody else's.
This is what anti- net neutrality looks like with atoms rather than electrons.
- savanaly 8y agoI've heard it as "commoditize your complements". When you're the heavyweight in a certain market (e.g. discovery and delivery), you want nearby markets to be competitive and prices to be low. You can greatly contribute to bringing that about by getting into it yourself like Amazon has with Amazon basics. They know they'll never make loads of money from those-- it's a highly competitive market after all-- but the better they can make it for consumers, the more consumers will use their actual product, the Amazon website. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
- softawre 8y agoGoogle does the same by offering lots of `free` products to get people on the web. More web users == more web ad revenue.