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It works both ways. With an open network, someone can build a better client than WA or iMessage and then there is social pressure to converge on the better one.
by Arathorn 4y ago
It works both ways. With an open network, someone can build a better client than WA or iMessage and then there is social pressure to converge on the better one. The best app ends up winning rather than the one with the biggest walled garden. The consumers win; complacent gatekeepers lose.
- Vinnl 4y agoThanks for chiming in! But the problem I see here is that WA or iMessage (or whatever incumbent) needn't be fully open on a network. They can give themselves access to the open network, without fully opening up their own network to the rest of the network, and then by virtue of being the incumbent, thereby prevent better clients from taking off. (And that, of course, is the embrace & extend part. Once they're the dominant player again...)