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It would literally take you 5 mins to set up your wife with a competing client for her needs. Sure it's 'sticky' at least a little, but it's not a moat. A moat
by keyle 8mo ago
It would literally take you 5 mins to set up your wife with a competing client for her needs.
Sure it's 'sticky' at least a little, but it's not a moat. A moat is a show stopper like they own you.
- brookst 8mo agoJust like it would take 10 seconds to buy her a Pepsi instead of her preferred Coke. Would you?
- BoredPositron 8mo agoCoke doesn't change their recipe every year.
- kortilla 8mo agoNo, because that’s a product you buy for flavor and Pepsi is a different flavor.
- brookst 8mo agoUI style and response tone aren’t flavors?
- anthonypasq 8mo agonow youre arguing openAI has a distinctly better product not just that they are hoping for high switching costs
- brookst 8mo agoNo, not at all. I am arguing that “distinctly better” isn’t the most important thing in consumer products. Habits, familiarity, and individual taste at far far more important. People just build affinity to products. The vast majority of people buy the same brand toothpaste they grew up with. “Better” isn’t even a consideration.
- h33t-l4x0r 8mo ago10 seconds to buy my wife a Pepsi? Why that estimate seems quite absurd. First I would have to walk 10 miles into town. Then I would have to locate a purveyor of goods that carried Pepsi-Cola products... Then I reckon we would spend a fort-minute dickering over price. And finally trudging back home with my Pepsi product in tow. Why, I'd be lucky to accomplish this herculean task in the very same evening.
- swexbe 8mo agoStickyness absolutely helps. But it won't get you anywhere close to a MAG7 operating margin. I think we are already seeing the start of price wars. I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription once i realized Gemini Pro was included in my Google Workspace and never looked back for a second.
- Staross 8mo agoIf it taste as good and is cheaper, sure.
- parliament32 8mo agoIf you could move the taste with the ease of OpenAI's Export Data tool? Sure, why not?
- atomicnumber3 8mo agoIdk, habit and the devil you know are powerful as hell. Google has enshittified search nearly beyond imagination, but it's still where the vastly overwhelming majority of people search.
- tcoff91 8mo agoWhat free search engine today performs significantly better? No seriously Google sucks and I want an alternative. Do I need to pay for Kagi to get decent search?