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Facebook came from actual face books at universities. It a brilliant name because the entire point was to see people you might want to sleep with. It wasn’t about sharing photos with mom.
Strange that it didn't evolve into Tinder.
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And email was around long before AOL or Hotmail.
And nobody used it, relatively speaking vs the extraordinary scale that those email products made possible later. Hotmail had more users after 18 months than the total history of all email services on earth combined for the first two decades of email. If email was still as annoying to use as it was pre AOL & Hotmail, the general public still wouldn't be using it today.
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter: they grew to what they are today because each of them had people behind the wheel with a product mentality . This mentality attracted the capital and talent necessary to create products that resonated with people . Now, some would say that, these services had the goal to make money and that's why they attracted capital and could hire top talent, but it doesn't change the fact t…
Mozilla was founded out of Netscape's product failure, and survived largely on the coattails of the search revolution. Desktop Linux's failure is a matter of perspective, but there were more than a few products built around it... they just failed. It turns out, that was the wrong vision.
Firefox is arguably better than Chrome and has a much nicer ideology as well, but it's not so much better than Chrome that the majority of users is switching by default.
Non technical people need a reason other than ideology to switch. The product needs to provide a new value that doesn't exist or be so much better that it's obvious to everybody who tries it.
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Mozilla was founded out of Netscape's product failure, and survived largely on the coattails of the search revolution. Desktop Linux's failure is a matter of perspective, but there were more than a few products built around it... they just failed. It turns out, that was the wrong vision.
Desktop Linux never became significantly better than Mac OS or Windows, that's why it failed to grow. It's worse in a lot of aspects except ideology. Firefox is arguably better than Chrome and has a much nicer ideology as well, but it's not so much better than Chrome that the majority of users is switching by default. Non technical people need a reason other than ideology to switch. The product needs to provide a new…
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Desktop Linux never became significantly better than Mac OS or Windows, that's why it failed to grow. It's worse in a lot of aspects except ideology. Firefox is arguably better than Chrome and has a much nicer ideology as well, but it's not so much better than Chrome that the majority of users is switching by default. Non technical people need a reason other than ideology to switch. The product needs to provide a new…
It failed to grow because it was never preinstalled on a sufficiently large number of machines at BestBuy, there's nothing else to it. If people were buying PCs with Linux on them, they'll use Linux and nobody would find anything weird about it.
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Facebook came from actual face books at universities. It a brilliant name because the entire point was to see people you might want to sleep with. It wasn’t about sharing photos with mom.
Strange that it didn't evolve into Tinder.
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It failed to grow because it was never preinstalled on a sufficiently large number of machines at BestBuy, there's nothing else to it. If people were buying PCs with Linux on them, they'll use Linux and nobody would find anything weird about it.
Firefox was also not pre-installed but still beat out IE.
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What if there was a well-maintained library that continuously scrapes a given user's Facebook account, and publishes it to AP?
The first question to answer is WHY user adoption remains anemic. Once there's an understanding of the cause, solution proposals make sense.
I think I can name a single person I would follow who is on Mastodon, honestly can't think of a #2