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Due to network effects, it is very difficult to compete with incumbent networks. Google AdWords and Uber do not need the people that they wrongfully kicked out.
by yonran 12y ago
Due to network effects, it is very difficult to compete with incumbent networks. Google AdWords and Uber do not need the people that they wrongfully kicked out. Facebook does not need the people who find their privacy policy untenable. Unless the grievances affect a large fraction of people, competition is not a strong enough force to correct major problems that affect few people.
- jamornh 12y agoThat may be true, but I don't see how that is different with publicly run marketplaces. Regulators and civil servants also tend to only care about the majority rather than protecting the minority.
- icebraining 12y agoWhy not? I don't use Facebook, yet I still communicate with everyone I care about. Many people earn their living through ads without using AdWords. Does their preponderance in the marketplace make it more difficult to avoid? No doubt. But have you ever tried to appeal a procedure of a calcified administration?
- mattlutze 12y agoIs your question why competition isn't strong enough against market-dominating incumbents to effect change, or why the named companies don't need the customers or service providers they expunge?
- icebraining 12y agoThe former. But by "effect change", I mean the banned customers can use the competition as a recourse. I understand they won't be unbanned.
- mattlutze 12y agoI see. The parent's "effect change" was that the banned or disaffected customers, even if they use other services, will not damage the market position of the service they were banned from or left. I.e., Facebook doesn't have to care that you send emails and make phone calls instead of Facebook messages, because your individual contribution to their income is negligible, and, I suppose, you don't represent a pervasive or effective force in their target demographics.
- icebraining 12y agoThe parent's "effect change" What parent's effect change? You were the first to use that expression in this thread. will not damage the market position of the service they were banned from or left. We weren't talking about their market position, but whether customers had recourse, and I said they have in the form of competing services. But if we're going to discuss the effects that an individual can have in changing overall practices of an organization, I'm not sure if public institutions will come out very well in the picture.
- crusso 12y agowill not damage the market position of the service I'm sure that's what MySpace thought during their heyday.