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The implication here is appeal to a wider audience _at the expense_ of the existing customer base, right? Otherwise it wouldn't be a tyranny at all. What I don
by rendaw 2y ago
The implication here is appeal to a wider audience _at the expense_ of the existing customer base, right? Otherwise it wouldn't be a tyranny at all.
What I don't get is at some point the marginal user increase for a change has got to be smaller than the number of customers you tick off and lose by changing things.
Is the idea that all services converge on the same N billion people target audience who wants something almost entirely unlike the initial product? I feel like "marginal" doesn't really capture this nuance if so.
- jfil 2y agoExisting userswon't leave when you tick them off, if you lock them in somehow (say, by having their social network all using your platform, or maybe by having previously sunk lots of time into curating a library of their favourite X on your platform).