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Transports work against your platform. Running a WhatsApp transport, you enhance WhatsApp's network effect and dilute your own.
by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
Transports work against your platform. Running a WhatsApp transport, you enhance WhatsApp's network effect and dilute your own.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoTransports work for you when you're an upstart, because it makes it less risky for users to adopt your platform. They work against you only once you get significant market share. See e.g. Slack, which propelled itself to success by offering an IRC transport, which prevented strong opposition for technically inclined people, and then promptly killing it when they became a major player in the office IM space.