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Seems like a problem that can be seen quite generally as well. e.g. Movie X is a flop, because it's opening weekend in US is disappointing. Goes on do excellen
by Plasmoid2000ad 8y ago
Seems like a problem that can be seen quite generally as well.
e.g.
Movie X is a flop, because it's opening weekend in US is disappointing. Goes on do excellently Worldwide, especially outside opening weekend.
Search engine X is a flop, because it's market share in US is negligible. Goes on to have solid user number in China and Germany.
It's probably not helped by the strong desire to link future performance predictions to easily available metrics, and never re-evaluating these. Just because the US has driven growth and profits in the past for X, doesn't mean it always will... but's it good enough for knee jerk reactions that generate views.
- dep_b 8y agoExcept that Facebook initially had a huge user- and mindshare in the US before crossing over to other countries, so it's expected that Facebook fatigue sets in first in the US before it starts affecting other countries. In Europe it's the same story for Facebook. I remember Facebook predecessors that had the same "well my parents are on it now and the same idiots keep posting bullshit over and over so I just lurk now and then" moment and none of them is really important anymore. I mean. MySpace is doing better than all of the others, which is about as good as Yahoo!.