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Well, that is understandable due the network effects business model[1]: a platform must be proprietary—controlled by a single company—for its provider to captur
by DanielRibeiro 15y ago
Well, that is understandable due the network effects business model[1]: a platform must be proprietary—controlled by a single company—for its provider to capture value created through network growth
Of course, there is the alternative: sharing the market than conducting an expensive winner-take-all battle, but as the current market leader, it surely wasn't in Facebook's intereset.
[1] http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2011/07/business-model-analysis-part-2.html http://platformsandnetworks.blogspot.com/2011/07/business-mo...
- ristretto 15y agoI dont understand why facebook gets a green card from the blogosphere, while nobody of its competitors or any other top-10 website reaches anywhere near this sort of evilness. Myspace didnt ban facebook ads, google doesnt ban facebook ads, hi5 doesnt, the majority of social apps advertise other apps; why is it "understandable" for fb? That's not a good way to build "open" app ecosystem.
- sliverstorm 15y agoHow is it not understandable? To say something is simply not understandable is to say you cannot even begin to conceive of why they would do such a thing. Whether or not we agree with FB, I think just about everyone sees where they are coming from.
- ristretto 15y agoYes, causality is generally not broken, so i assumed the meaning "justifiable" for "understandable". My comment was not so much a response to the comment but to the general "free pass" that the "new ethics" get in mainstream media.
- DanielRibeiro 15y agoI really meant understandable. By no means i think it is "good" or desirable. I even think it can harm Facebook in the mid/long term.
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