I disagree - Spotify is biggest music service despite being the smallest company among its competitors.
Network effects can be broken. It’s not like Google and Apple are #1 in every area where they compete.
Network effects can be broken. It’s not like Google and Apple are #1 in every area where they compete.
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2019-03-13/consumers-and-innova...
Trying to directly compete with Apple and Google in the mobile OS market would be like trying to compete with Boing/Airbus or TSMC/Samsung, in that the capital requirements are so astronomical without extreme forms of subsidies and protectionism.
Just because it's possible to compete in one product area doesn't mean its possible to compete in all of them. A smartphone experience is networks on networks on networks to the point that breaking in is next to impossible despite the fact that one of them is based on an open source OS.
Google and Apple control the platform so they can kick you out or make your business unprofitable with shenanigans such as these.