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The webapp market is limited by people's leisure time. There can't be 10 Facebooks, because if the average person spends 30 min per day on Facebook, then it wou
by Rod 16y ago
The webapp market is limited by people's leisure time. There can't be 10 Facebooks, because if the average person spends 30 min per day on Facebook, then it would have to spend 4h30min on the other 9 webapps. Nobody has that much time. The market for electronics, photonics is almost unlimited... because these technologies are meant to automate, not to entertain. This is not a matter of electronics being "nobler" than webapps, it's just the realization that one encounters certain limitations in the webapp area that do not exist elsewhere.
- jacquesm 16y agoNot all web-apps are leisure oriented. Plenty of them are B2B and plenty of them are giving a tangible return on time invested to the users.
- Rod 16y agoYou mean software as service kind of stuff? Would you care to provide some examples?
- jacquesm 16y agoDating sites (b2c), dropbox (both b2b and b2c), tarsnap (b2b), drupal, wordpress, ebay and so on, there must be thousands of examples.
- trafficlight 16y agoFreshbooks (indispensable to me), Mailchimp, Outright.com, Basecamp and Backpack. And those are just the ones I use for my day to day business.
- cperciva 16y agoFWIW, Tarsnap is both b2b and b2c. My best guess from eyeballing email addresses and talking to some Tarsnap users is that businesses are only 20% of Tarsnap users, although they account for about 80% of the total usage.
- jacquesm 16y agoThat's a real surprise to me! (was it to you?) The way tarsnap is marketed I'd never ever expected it to be b2c, most private individuals I know outside of computing would have a very hard time understanding what it's all about without a lot of explanation. That's really interesting.
- cperciva 16y agoI didn't say that the private individuals who use Tarsnap are outside of computing. I know a lot of unix geeks. :-)
- jacquesm 16y agoAh right, of course, why didn't I think of that angle. That should have been obvious. To my defence I'll say I wrote that before my morning tea while on a holiday. Will try harder next time.