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> But FB, IG and WhatsApp are clearly separate products, all very much monopolies in their markets What is the "market"? Things people do on their phones? Wh

• hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
  That really doesn't seem like that hard of a thing to answer. E.g. just look at Facebook: name the #2 broadly "generic" social network. Is there really any other alternative here, at all? It really was a winner take all effect here, evidenced by the fact that all their former competitors are basically dead. Same thing with Instagram - anyone remember Hipstamatic?
  • javagram 6y ago
    Twitter and Snapchat are the obvious answers here about “competitor”. And WhatsApp, of course, the competitors are iMessage, GChat, and MMS/RCS that’s already built right into every phone.
  • wvenable 6y ago
    What is a social network? What makes Facebook different from Twitter, Reddit, HackerNews, or Linkedin? Basically if you define social network as something exactly like Facebook then, of course, that's what it is and everything else is excluded.
• deleted 6y ago
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