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> The app ecosystem is like nature’s ecosystem – where innumerable species evolve and thrive, and that is the best that could happen for users. We need a rich e
by pelario 12y ago
> The app ecosystem is like nature’s ecosystem – where innumerable species evolve and thrive, and that is the best that could happen for users. We need a rich ecosystem comprising of multiple species – read startups – that can lead to further evolution – read innovation – than just a few predatory monsters.
I wonder how much of wishful thinkin is in the article.
The claimed fact that there is no dominant actor yet does not grant that this not going to happend, like "In the desktop world".
I remember reading the same kind of idealistic descriptions about the internet about 15 years ago, and now it is dominated by the giants.
- evgen 12y agoAgreed, completely delusional wishful thinking. There is some innovation and "unbundling" at the edges, and then once those edges become reasonably well defined and there is a verifiable market there the majors will swoop in, build a couple of clones or additions to their platforms and hoover up a couple of the larger apps. And the cycle will continue. Every once in a while one of these major players at the edge will grow big at a fast enough rate that it will achieve orbital velocity and become a major in its own right by owning the new hotness for long enough to become a utility (cf. Netscape, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc.) but the idea that this there is any sort of major change in progress seems somewhat detached from the facts on the ground.