alt Hacker NewsWhy would companies sell you the golden goose when they can instead sell you an egg every day?
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You could say the same thing about Computers when they were mostly mainframe. I am sure someone will figure out how to make it commoditized just like personal computers and internet.
Because someone else will sell it to you if they dont.
Because companies are not some monolith, all doing identical things forever. If someone sees a new angle to make money, they'll start doing it.
Data General and Unisys did not create PCs - small disrupters did that. These startups were happy to sell eggs.
Well if there's at least one competitor selling golden geese to consumers the rest have to adapt.
Assuming consumers even bother to set up a coop in their living room...
Your margin is my opportunity. The more expensive centralized models get the easier it is for distributed models to compete.
When the consumer decides to discover my site and fund federated and P2P infrastructure, they can have a seat at the table.
Selling fertile geese was a winning and proven business biz model for a very long time.
Selling eggs is better how?
> Why would companies sell you the golden goose when they can instead sell you an egg every day?
Because someone else can sell the goose and take your market.
Apple is best aligned to be the disruptor. But I wouldn’t underestimate the Chinese government dumping top-tier open-source models on the internet to take our tech companies down a notch or ten.