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I know exactly how they work, but they have a single entry point, as a customer you don't really care that the system is global, and they also have a single control plane, etc. Decisions are efficient if they need to be taken only once. The underlying architecture is irrelevant for the end user. Why do you think they're a monopoly in the first place? Obviously because they were more efficient than the competition and…
> Decisions are efficient if they need to be taken only once. In other words, open source decentralized systems are the most efficient because you don't have to reduplicate a competitor's effort when you can just use the same code. > Obviously because they were more efficient than the competition and network effects took care of the rest. In most cases it's just the network effect, and whether it was a proprietary or…
This is the great lie. Approximately zero end consumers care about code, the product they consume is the service, and if the marginal cost of switching the service provider is zero, it's enough to be 1% better to take 99% of the market.