“Participating on someone else’s operating system means you’re on their turf. Resisting the local conventions and importing design from a different operating system is as offensive as an American going to a far-off country and expecting everyone to speak English and accept U.S. cash.”— Jason Snell, macworld.com
“For most of the web, poor network connectivity destroys the user experience. We can do better.”— Jake Archibald, youtube.com
“Google Home should also get a significant boost from another major I/O announcement: Allo, a messaging service that calls on neural networks not just to understand your words, but reply to them. Home offers the promise of not just understanding commands, but providing conversation.”— Brian Barrett, wired.com
“The problem is that network effects just aren’t as durable as they used to be...Currently, modern technology — fueled by software, the internet, and the cloud — makes it possible for a challenger to enter the market at minimal cost. Price competition doesn’t matter much since the winner that took al…”— David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee, hbr.org
“Experience also shows us that that network effects can also work in reverse, and destroy value with explosive speed. This has happened to many shopping malls. When consumer traffic drops a little, a few stores leave, the mall becomes less attractive. Then traffic reduces a little more, more stores l…”— David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee, hbr.org
“But the new economics of multisided platforms, which we explore in detail in Matchmakers, shows that the winner-takes-all theory doesn’t describe most internet platforms. What markets have these companies actually won? If you think Google is the winner in search, Facebook in social networks, and Twi…”— David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee, hbr.org
“The market for ad impressions is a lot like the market for used cars. Think of lemons, where the buyer of the used car knows a lot less about what’s inside it than the seller. Information asymmetry creates a real problem when there is a lack of transparency, or what we call in economics a moral haza…”— Andrew Shebbeare, adexchanger.com
“Ad blocking is a bit like polluting the planet or overfishing the oceans. It’s a little like what economists call the tragedy of the commons. Individual actors do what is independently rational for them according to their own self interests at the expense of the common good and the resource gets dep…”— Andrew Shebbeare, adexchanger.com
“If you truly believe in the potential of your company to change the world for the better, there's no excuse for settling for an acquisition. An acquisition is the end of a dream. Today's titans push the ideal of acquisition because they're afraid of future competitors. Google knows that its biggest…”— Jake Lodwick, thoughtcatalog.com