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The competitor is not doing better because of its disadvantage, it is doing better despite it. The space of apps is high dimensional, (what used to be) Facebook
by Banana699 4y ago
The competitor is not doing better because of its disadvantage, it is doing better despite it. The space of apps is high dimensional, (what used to be) Facebook's niche is a very obvious local optima that it filled early on and locked away from past and future competitors. Tiktok was forced to find another non-obvious local optima and it did.
Facebook also have long abandoned their competitive advantage with their outrage porn focused recommendations since at least 2015/2016, they were just doing it badly. Tiktok is showing them how it's better done.
- meltyness 4y agoI wouldn't call it better, TikTok isn't presently obligated to care about their market, however. Wheras YouTube recommendations are seen as exploitable by an adversary to undermine ad revenue and platform trust, TikTok has the benefit of being "nascent" with a "runway" to survive without a real business model, on the relative strength of the current user base. This isn't a new frontier, and ByteDance hasn't solved the robustness problem, they're just receiving the going discount on ignoring it. It'll work itself out.