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> You can replace Google/Amazon/Facebook in seconds. This is largely false: look at market share of all their competitors — network effects are really hard to
by bhl 8y ago
> You can replace Google/Amazon/Facebook in seconds.
This is largely false: look at market share of all their competitors — network effects are really hard to replace.
- bryan_w 8y agoPeople said the same thing about AOL, Yahoo, and Myspace
- ApolloFortyNine 8y agoGoogle doesn't even have a network effect, they just have the World's best search engine. If it ceased to be the World's best, you could leave immediately. Amazon you can replace by just ordering from any of the other countless online vendors. Facebook is harder to replace, but people thought Myspace would be around forever for the same reasons.