They can afford to build a messaging tool. Come on.
Flinging money at the network effect is a great way to lose money.
Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive
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#12Why the hell aren't these chuckleheads on Bloomberg where they belong?
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#13When an industry is so reliant on one service, it's very difficult to shift an entire industry to a new platform. Segmentation is a real thing. A good example I'm familiar with is within electronic sports (competitive video-games): almost every executive, player, personality, etc has been using Skype since ~2010. Unfortunately, Skype has a large number of security vulnerabilities and users can be subjected by DDOS at…
Another issue is that asking someone to install a malware'd VOIP client is also a common scam: https://www.google.com/search?q=teamspeak+scam
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#14When an industry is so reliant on one service, it's very difficult to shift an entire industry to a new platform. Segmentation is a real thing. A good example I'm familiar with is within electronic sports (competitive video-games): almost every executive, player, personality, etc has been using Skype since ~2010. Unfortunately, Skype has a large number of security vulnerabilities and users can be subjected by DDOS at…
This problem could be solved if we fixed our tech access and intellectual property laws. The constricting elements of the online network effect only exist because we have laws that grant artificial monopolies. The only reason that Discord and/or Slack and/or OtherAlternative can't make it seamless is because Microsoft/Skype would likely file a lawsuit. While there are hairy intellectual property issues at play here, MS's best vein of attack would be the CFAA, which would almost certainly criminalize something like Slack connecting to Skype's network to offer an adapter/bridge between the two networks.
People comment on the queer nature of this phenomenon frequently but seemingly fail to understand that it's that way because We The People made up laws dictating that it should be that way. There is no deprivation of either possession or use of property here, so why did we make this illegal? Let's fix the problem and allow true competition, instead of protecting lumbering incumbents.
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#15This is insane. Why does guy who digs a hole and sell's oil need to care about high tech?!
Oil industry is extremely high-tech.
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#17The oil traders could move to WhatsApp or somesuch but I'd be kind of sad if they went. The other day I was trying to get free historical stock data via an API and Yahoo Finance was about the only thing that did it ok.
Yahoo could assure their financial future by going massively long oil futures and then putting out false messages about Saudi Arabia having been nuked by ISIS or some such. A tad illegal perhaps but an offshoot in some ill policed part of the world could do it.
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#18A lot of big tech companies also use Yahoo chat. Salesforce did as late as 2012 when I left, with 1k+ people in the eng org. (No idea if they still do).
Seemed crazy at the same, still does now too
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#19This article seems to be making a mountain out of a molehill. Just use one of the competing, recordable chat services if Yahoo! Messenger disappears?
But which one? It's all about the network effects. And losing the address you've had for 15 years isn't a trivial thing either.
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#20When an industry is so reliant on one service, it's very difficult to shift an entire industry to a new platform. Segmentation is a real thing. A good example I'm familiar with is within electronic sports (competitive video-games): almost every executive, player, personality, etc has been using Skype since ~2010. Unfortunately, Skype has a large number of security vulnerabilities and users can be subjected by DDOS at…
This problem could be solved if we fixed our tech access and intellectual property laws. The constricting elements of the online network effect only exist because we have laws that grant artificial monopolies. The only reason that Discord and/or Slack and/or OtherAlternative can't make it seamless is because Microsoft/Skype would likely file a lawsuit. While there are hairy intellectual property issues at play here,…
And, for those unfamiliar with how crazy the CFAA can get, look no further than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz