Serious question..... but also more me fleshing out my thoughts on messaging apps....
What is the point in buying a messaging app?
- instant messenger
- ICQ
- Skype
- Yammer
- WhatsApp
They all seem to be popular for a short time and then fad away.
What does owing one of these get a company?
The case against owning them is that they all go out of favour and you only have a small window, say up to 5 years, where your platform is dominate before everyone moves onto another solution.
At one point the theory was it got people to use a companies proprietary login, when companies thought there was value in having people use their login.
At this point, if I said Slack would be a shell of its former self in 5 - 10 years would anyone put up an argument , if so what's the argument that this time its different.
I'm a happy slack user, but i"ll move to a new platform tomorrow if a better one comes along, there is almost no network effect or lock with these apps so switching has almost zero cost.
Plugins might provide a slight lockin but time has shown again and again the same plugins will move to the next popular messaging app, which seems to negate any benefit.
What is the point in buying a messaging app?
- instant messenger
- ICQ
- Skype
- Yammer
- WhatsApp
They all seem to be popular for a short time and then fad away.
What does owing one of these get a company?
The case against owning them is that they all go out of favour and you only have a small window, say up to 5 years, where your platform is dominate before everyone moves onto another solution.
At one point the theory was it got people to use a companies proprietary login, when companies thought there was value in having people use their login.
At this point, if I said Slack would be a shell of its former self in 5 - 10 years would anyone put up an argument , if so what's the argument that this time its different.
I'm a happy slack user, but i"ll move to a new platform tomorrow if a better one comes along, there is almost no network effect or lock with these apps so switching has almost zero cost.
Plugins might provide a slight lockin but time has shown again and again the same plugins will move to the next popular messaging app, which seems to negate any benefit.