>> "Your value is in the protocol itself, not where it's being used."
Can you name any open protocols that are profitable businesses? I don't think writers of the email RFC made all that much money out of the email spec :/
Can you name any open protocols that are profitable businesses? I don't think writers of the email RFC made all that much money out of the email spec :/
The 3rd party clients can all just get together and setup their own backend. Most people are using 3rd party clients anyway.
If a few influential people with tons of followers were using twitter client X, and that client decided to stop using the twitter backend, and instead use something else, you'd likely see a mass exodus (As long as the client was good enough and available on multiple platforms etc).
I guess my point is that the valuable bit, the bit people care about, is the client, and who they can access from it. The network, protocol, backend etc, meh.