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How to corner a market and exploit it: - Provide a free or very cheap service without lock-in antipatterns - Capture a large share of the market - Create loc
by goodpoint 5y ago
How to corner a market and exploit it:
- Provide a free or very cheap service without lock-in antipatterns
- Capture a large share of the market
- Create lock-in
- Extract money by charging fees or doing surveillance or leveraging market power
It's amazing how the tech crowd falls for the same tricks decade after decade after decade.
- ziml77 5y agoWhat lock-in are you referring to here?
- goodpoint 5y agoCloudflare is not at that stage yet, but for a global Internet MiTM there are a hundred different ways to lock user in.
- pixodaros 5y agoLikewise, the paid versions of Automattic, SquareSpace and co. are not cheaper than your own site with a small web host! At which point you don't have to worry about random changes of policy and interface at half a dozen services, you have email, file hosting, and a homepage in one simple service. It seems like the OP could SSH or FTP into a server at his parents' house from campus.