A bit of a general question, but why is the tech market so "winner takes it all" like? It has not always been this way, back in the day (00s to early 10s) one social media, dating or messaging platform replaced the other within 2-3 years.Nowadays, even non community apps which are super easy to copy, are being enshittificated with no replacement popping up. I am talking about Komoot, Duolingo and the likes.I understand for stuff like Hyperscalers the CapEx is too high, so there will NEVER be a European AWS/GCP/Azure (or ChatGPT/Gemini). But how come even small fucking apps like that cannot be copied and improved?
>>107796597There is no government regulation for the tech and software market, anything goes.
>>107796597>It has not always been this wayit has indeed always been this way. look up robert bork and something like the microsoft netscape case or adobe with all its competitors. corpos hate competition because they don't want to innovate, they want to bleed you dry.
>>107796623government regulation is what makes big tech eat small fish even more. all those national rules from hundreds of countries about what can be streamed or not, about handling user data and cookies, age verification etc makes it impossible for something like a simple forum to be created nowadays and everyone just uses Reddit
>>107796704This.>start a forum>"excuse me, but what's your data retention policy? I'll need that filled out in triplicate and faxed over to our office. No we don't take emails.">"excuse me? I can't help but notice that you didn't smack each user in the face and yell the word COOKIE every time they went to your site. I'm going to need you to pay a twenty million euro fine.">"excuse me! did somebody on your website just do a heckin racism! you have a duty to report that to the racism reporting centers of 183 different countries within 90 seconds of discovery or else you face 183 different fines!"I just wanted to talk about hockey, bros...
>>107796597This is beside the general point of your post, but in the case of Duolingo, Google is coming out with a competing platform to mercifully kill the shitheap that is Duolingo. Currently being beta tested within the Google Translate app itself.
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>>107796752>>107796752>>107796752>excuse me, but what's your data retention policy?Zero. All my data is stored in RAM and is flushed once there is not enough of it.
>>107797248>Zero. All my data is stored in RAM and is flushed once there is not enough of it.Like my heckin brain!
>>107796597>>107796704It's impossible to monetize anything in the 2020s if it's just you and your buddy. You need to raise startup capital just to be able to afford to cover the red tape.
>>107796597Game theory applies to everything. There will always be winners and losers. This is the reality.
>>107798230>Game theory applies to everything. There will always be winners and losers. This is the reality.The burger translation of The Lords Prayer.
>>107796704Want to explain how the non existent big tech regulation of the 90s and 2000s lead the the FAGMAN cabal of today or should we just move on with our lives and write you off as another cuck?
>>107798230The Pareto Principle and Mathews Law do, but not Game Theory. At the same time, while using market theory to argue how a market works is feasible. Its also often used to ignore the realities of how skill and cost to entry exist as obstacles, instead of just arguing the cost effectiveness is fucking everything.
>>107796704There's literally millions of forums that get by just fine. Regulation has nothing to do with them not being able to compete with social media.
>>107798268It still happens with new technologies. Zuck and friends have scraped Reddit, 4chan and torrented every book ever written for their AIs (along with scientific papers from sci-hub etc). If you try to pull that off as an individual, you will end up like Aaron Schwartz
>>107798385>doges the question entirely because he can't answer
>>107798268Um, because they emerged as the winners in their respective sectors, rather than their competitors, as the internet was developing? What point are you trying to make?
>>107796830>Google is coming out with a competing platformGreat, can't wait until they abandon it in 2027
>>107796597there's a network effect for a lot of them. but im not sure duolingo has any moat whatsoever. just marketing spend
>>107798606>Government regulations will cause big fish to eat small>Big fish ate small fish long time ago>Ummm... Those are winners
