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Big tech doesn’t generally make money by selling software. They make money through monopoly effects on their social networks and ad platforms. They need some d
by Legend2440 1y ago
Big tech doesn’t generally make money by selling software.
They make money through monopoly effects on their social networks and ad platforms. They need some devs to build/maintain that platform of course, but devs are not as core to their business as they think they are. The monopoly status is the money printer.
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- Bukhmanizer 1y agoOf course, but how do you become a monopoly? By selling your software, often implicitly through eyeballs and clicks. I disagree that devs aren’t important to this process. You want to make your software as ridiculously low- friction as possible. If making your software 10% faster/smoother/better is going to result in more users, you should be willing to throw as much money (within reason) at that problem as it takes until you have strong network effects. Once you have a monopoly it becomes less necessary to do anything, which is maybe where we find ourselves today.