Thread · 3 tweets · 20 Nov 2022

It does, but I'm not sure that it's the people you are thinking of who need to be educated about the power dynamics they encourage. For any of these companies, dropping in search is a death blow just as dropping off an app store, yet browsers all maintain that power. Worth it?

I know you spend time thinking about these things, so please take a step back to consider what your frame on this is. You're approaching this with the assumption that they don't understand the dynamics, that they need to be "educated", like an expert to hapless villagers.

I just spent 5y there & the reality is far more sobering. They understand the dynamics v well & spend a huge amount of time strategising around them because their livelihoods fully depend on getting it right. Yet they still prefer app stores. What does this tell you abt the web?