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Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
A looming question mark is how companies will build competitive moats; true tech differentiation is rare, and companies will need to find ways to stay ahead of competition, perhaps with network effects or with iterative loops of user engagement and product refinement.
Rex Woodbury • AI in 2023: The Application Layer Has Arrived
Today with content, at any point in time you are competing with what's on a person's smartphone. This means that formally different lines of business and different industries now compete head-to-head.
Eugene Wei • Eugene Wei – Tech, Media, and Culture - [Invest Like the Best, EP.117]
This is because the Desktop was originally designed in 1973 to suit a very different need in computation—the need to mirror digital content with its physical equivalent (WYSIWYG, anyone?). But in a post-Internet world (at the cusp of 5G and the AI singularity, I might add), the way we consume and produce content has largely moved away from the bagg... See more