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[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One of the reasons to always cheer on (new) competitors and why we should give new companies a fair chance to establish something

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago

The problem is that systems like this have strong network effects working in favor of the established options, nobody develops for platforms without users, nobody wants to use a platform without apps, development has more resources (existing libraries, tutorials, reference documentation,...) on existing platforms,...