Yes and no, I think. There is also a "memoryless" effect at work that causes new users to favour more complex and presumably powerful products, which they then

Yes and no, I think. There is also a "memoryless" effect at work that causes new users to favour more complex and presumably powerful products, which they then invest in and are reluctant to switch away from. I'm not sure the resulting network effects in the market are an example of path dependence. There is an article by Don Norman on the complexity phenomenon here: http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_highly.html http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_highly.html