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The markets say that you are wrong. Pretty close to all who edit photos professionally use Photoshop. And as the presentation told us, WhatsApp is eating the wh

The markets say that you are wrong. Pretty close to all who edit photos professionally use Photoshop. And as the presentation told us, WhatsApp is eating the whole text messaging markets. I don't use it and I don't like this trend, but that's what we got. And the fact that Facebook had to buy Instagram and WhatsApp just reinforces my point. If they would have not bought WhatsApp, WhatsApp might have replaced Facebook. So all markets are going towards monopolies because there is no reason to use second best software.

mdpopescu 11y ago
You do realize that this is an US-centric view, right? From what I can tell China and South Korea have completely different sets of popular social networks. Another issue with your "everything will be a monopoly" is the fact that new networks keep popping up - see Slack. The King creates those who want to dethrone him.
- hpaavola 11y ago
  No, it's not a country centric view. People do not use Weibo and Facebook, they use Weibo or Facebook depending were they live. Facebook has a monopoly in most western countries, Weibo in China. The reason why Weibo is dominating in China is political. That will change. It might not be Facebook that overtakes Weibo, but something will do it once China opens its Internet. Slack and its competitors are just forming a new market that will be overtaken by one company. Because software services are not tied to a geographical area and because they are immaterial and will not run out of stock, there is no reason to use second best software. While hiring slowest lumberjack to help the fastest one makes the project finish up faster, the same is not true with software. You just use the fastest one.
  - scholia 11y ago
    Until quite recently, many different countries had different popular social networks, including Vkontakte (Russia), Orkut (Brazil), Hi5 (Peru) and so on. http://readwrite.com/2009/06/07/post_2 http://readwrite.com/2009/06/07/post_2 Adoption is driven by network effects, so it depends who got traction first. However, the global trend is obviously towards Facebook. It has the biggest network and ultimately the strongest network effect.

mdpopescu 11y ago

You do realize that this is an US-centric view, right? From what I can tell China and South Korea have completely different sets of popular social networks. Another issue with your "everything will be a monopoly" is the fact that new networks keep popping up - see Slack. The King creates those who want to dethrone him.

hpaavola 11y ago
No, it's not a country centric view. People do not use Weibo and Facebook, they use Weibo or Facebook depending were they live. Facebook has a monopoly in most western countries, Weibo in China. The reason why Weibo is dominating in China is political. That will change. It might not be Facebook that overtakes Weibo, but something will do it once China opens its Internet. Slack and its competitors are just forming a new market that will be overtaken by one company. Because software services are not tied to a geographical area and because they are immaterial and will not run out of stock, there is no reason to use second best software. While hiring slowest lumberjack to help the fastest one makes the project finish up faster, the same is not true with software. You just use the fastest one.
- scholia 11y ago
  Until quite recently, many different countries had different popular social networks, including Vkontakte (Russia), Orkut (Brazil), Hi5 (Peru) and so on. http://readwrite.com/2009/06/07/post_2 http://readwrite.com/2009/06/07/post_2 Adoption is driven by network effects, so it depends who got traction first. However, the global trend is obviously towards Facebook. It has the biggest network and ultimately the strongest network effect.