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Re:Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network by Alex3917 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:56PM (#14159109)
> It's hard to build a customer base when Facebook can just come in, copy you, and corner 95% of the market on the day they release.

Not really. Snapchat is getting copied because its functionality enhances the strategic value of Facebook's core assets. There are plenty of other businesses that would be easy for Facebook to copy technologically, but doing so would undermine the value of Facebook's core assets. Basically Snapchat brought a knife to a gunfight, with the expected results.

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Re:Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network by accountyaccount on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:08PM (#14159219)
Which is why Facebook can just leverage their login system to see when another site has a viable userbase and then just add the feature to Facebook. They're doing it with GoFundMe right now.
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