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“What if there was only one way to buy things”, “then 100% of things bought would be bought through that one way”. If you eliminate differentiation you are eli
by dfee 7y ago
“What if there was only one way to buy things”, “then 100% of things bought would be bought through that one way”.
If you eliminate differentiation you are eliminating friction, but also innovation.
- jborichevskiy 7y agoFair point. Maybe it can better be phrased as, "what if online marketplaces published their data in an open format allowing the end client to display them however the user prefers"?
- the_other 7y agoYou mean like CSS Zen Garden?
- jborichevskiy 7y agohttp://www.csszengarden.com/214/ http://www.csszengarden.com/214/ Neat project - thanks for mentioning. Definitely in line with what I'm imagining.
- all2 7y agoOr via Styx/9p2000. Could you imagine an online store that mounted directly into your operating system? There would be a whole market of GUIs. [edit] Perhaps provided on a 9p.mydomain.tld subdomain? Or would it just be something like nttp instead of http? [/edit]
- tomcooks 7y agoIt's inevitable, the very core nature of markets will inevitably lead to either one single player or an oligarchy of players using shared strategies