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He gets at a really smart point here, and it's really the most important one of the article: if your existence helps secure others' existence, then you're sitti
by karzeem 19y ago
He gets at a really smart point here, and it's really the most important one of the article: if your existence helps secure others' existence, then you're sitting in the catbird seat. To paraphrase a professor of mine from a couple years ago, why steal pieces of the pie from others when you can spend your time making the pie a lot bigger for everyone?
The best-designed platforms not only get better with more apps, but they make it so that the presence of every new app benefits all the others.
- yamada 19y agoApple is arguably a very well-designed platform and gets better by specifically limiting apps by offering better quality to counter quantity. And making the pie bigger for all involved only matters if you can control the process to the extent that you decide how much you can take out of the pie to support all the extra effort that goes into increasing the whole pie; otherwise you do all the work (zerox) and everybody comes along and eats your pie (pc industry) and you're just left with war stories ("nobody knows this, but me and my team invented that - it's true"). Lookup Cournot-Nash equilibrium.