Facebook Platform and the software/media quandary
October 6th, 2007 | by danny |O-Reilly ponders about the Facebook App platform, and shows a chart of application usage, which no surprise is highly concentrated among a few players.
It would be nice to see a chart of Windows consumer apps by comparison. I’d imagine a similar curve, with MSFT, Adobe, Quicken, Yahoo, AOL, Google, couple media players and IM clients at the top, and most others far behind.
And it would be nice to see a chart of TV channels or magazine subscriptions by comparison. The tail would likely be longer (especially if you look by brand rather than parent company).
These charts would then properly summarize the Facebook quandary (software platform vs. media platform)…
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