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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effects
by brown9-2 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effects
- badman_ting 13y ago… GP mentioned Apple and Google specifically, both of whom know who their users' contacts are. Come on.
- brown9-2 13y agoYes, but neither company is great at publishing cross-platform apps. I gave the "network effects" example to point out that "killing Snapchat" wouldn't be so simple as having built-in iOS functionality - because the people that Snapchat users like snapchatting with are already all in Snapchat and might not carry over to a new platform-only service.