Re:Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat
by tenjack85 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @08:01PM
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If a company is able to clone your idea and able to execute it better then your idea wasn't unique enough and your product is lacking something that the other company has.
Take for instance Google Plus, clearly a clone of every other social media. But it didn't work out too well. Facebook on the other hand was a copy of other platforms as well but well executed. Plus can Snapchat still be considered a small company, I guess in comparison to Facebook sure.
Re:Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat
by MacsHeadroom on Friday April 14, 2017 @03:00AM
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>Is this really fair to you?
Yes, that's perfectly fair to me. That's how competition works.
The world would be a dark place if nobody copied other peoples' ideas and made products/better products out of them.
Is this really fair to you? Big Company A stole your invention and leveraged their market power to basically shove you into a corner and out-produce you, but if it weren't for your original idea, they would have never done any of this. It's the concept of a company stealing an idea/invention from someone else and using it to profit themselves that doesn't sit well with me.