When The Chasm Comes Back and Hits You In The Face
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#2Are you recommending we wait to adopt new platforms right away in fear of getting too comfortable with them!?
Re: When The Chasm Comes Back and Hits You In The Face
#3Are you recommending we wait to adopt new platforms right away in fear of getting too comfortable with them!?
I'm saying disruption happens both ways: The innovators disrupt the laggards, but the innovators build up cruft and legacy over time and the laggards can side-step them and jump through revolutions.
We tend to get caught up in our own disruptions.
Re: When The Chasm Comes Back and Hits You In The Face
#4The link between broadband and apps is tenuous at best.
The US has lagged in consumer broadband behind most other countries for a long time. It also lagged in adoption of text messaging and so on. This is presumably due to the weird regulations that the very powerful telecoms companies managed to place themselves under, which stifle competition. The US never led here. In Japan, for example, gigabit to the home has been available reasonably cost effectively for almost a decade.
In terms of apps, there is much freer competition. I think the biggest difference here is that in the Bay Area there is a very high proportion of iPhone users, whereas in the rest of the world Blackberry, Nokia and Android dominate. That explains the success of WhatsApp's cross platform strategy and the relative sidelining of Messages.app!