I think you're misunderstanding what "network effects" means.
I think you're misunderstanding what "network effects" means. A product or service benefits from the network effect when it becomes more useful the more users it has. For example, a telephone by itself is completely worthless. A telephone when all your friends also have telephones is great. Uber doesn't benefit from this effect in any meaningful way. If my friends all use Uber, that doesn't make Uber inherently more useful to me than Lyft (or a cab). Its utility is divorced from the number of other people using it. What you're talking about is more properly called "mindshare" (much as I hate that term) or simply "consumer awareness".
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> It looked like an office desk phone but instead of Ethernet, a SIM card goes only.
i have been going thru this for years now and because this attaches to contacts i have literally destroyed my family life.
I did the same thing this year, and I agree it's been one of the best decisions I've made.
If 30 years ago someone suggested breaking into your house to take away your Nintendo games or remotely disabling them by sending somethi...
This is an entirely weird and bizarre conversation.
I hate that our solution to the modern Internet is to engage in technical warfare just to make it usable.
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I think you're misunderstanding what "network effects" means.
I think you're misunderstanding what "network effects" means. A product or service benefits from the network effect when it becomes more useful the more users it has. For example, a telephone by itself is completely worthless. A telephone when all your friends also have telephones is great. Uber doesn't benefit from this effect in any meaningful way. If my friends all use Uber, that doesn't make Uber inherently more useful to me than Lyft (or a cab). Its utility is divorced from the number of other people using it. What you're talking about is more properly called "mindshare" (much as I hate that term) or simply "consumer awareness".
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