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> become monopolized OTOH, like all relatively simple apps, this ought to be trivially easy to create a competitor for, so it must not be economically feasible
by commandlinefan 3y ago
> become monopolized
OTOH, like all relatively simple apps, this ought to be trivially easy to create a competitor for, so it must not be economically feasible to do so (just like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit never got any competition no matter how user hostile they became). Why isn't there a free, non-evil Hinge competitor? Because it costs too much to run, and they have to do this to stay in business.
- WorldMaker 3y agoThe arc of it seems to be that apps either die quickly seeing their best ideas cannibalized by Match Group (and can't compete with its network effects, its dark patterns, its massive budgets) or live long enough to become themselves the villains and eventually copy Match Group's dark patterns or simply just exit into Match Group.