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Re:Big publishers are fleeing from Facebook's Instant Articles by coldtea on Sunday April 16, 2017 @05:43PM (#14127698)
>the point is, it's a market that never took off, and Facebook could change that very quickly, due to their sheer scale

But maybe, I say, it never took off for a reason? Some things are just not what people want.

(Though of course all the content providers crave them like crazy)

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Re:Big publishers are fleeing from Facebook's Instant Articles by ethbro on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @09:48AM (#14138747)
I think niftich's reasoning was chicken and egg.

No one (practically speaking) accepts micropayments because there's no unified system with good UX, and no one can build a unified system with a good UX because no one is accepting micropayments. Facebook could change all that in the same way that MS can push a feature to Windows and instantly make a new market. Barrier to entry looks different when you're a de facto monopoly.

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