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Hey it worked for AOL ... for a while
by sevencolors 6y ago
Hey it worked for AOL ... for a while
- im3w1l 6y agoAny theory on why it works for a while?
- Slartie 6y agoIt's a pendulum. It swings. A single super-platform has the benefit of integrating several functions in a nice package. But while accumulating more functionality at some point it becomes too bloated, innovation slows down, it's a big ball of mud able to do everything, but also bad at everything, at which point it is outpaced left and right by small speedboats specialized on single functions, highly innovative, but with less tight coupling between them. This leaves more burden on the user to integrate them, but at some point the qualitative difference between the big ball of mud and the individual tools is so big that users will gladly do this integrative work if they can then enjoy better solutions...until the individually-constructed "big ball of muds" made out of haphazard integrations of many individual solutions become convoluted enough again for someone to "professionally" integrate some of these functions at the current level of quality into a new "super platform", and the cycle starts anew.