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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by bserge on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:34AM (#25275171)
On the bright side, these users can likely move to another platform if the big fish fudges up.

And now the big fish has spent a massive amount on a worthless product.

Kinda like MySpace.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:21PM (#25283155)
Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't. Services that came after MySpace aren't like MySpace.

Switching from one dominant service for posting your meal photos to another dominant service for posting your meal photos is relatively easy. But if a web tool you depend on decides to finish their "incredible journey", you're likely to remain without an equivalent replacement (VC subsidies making it easy for few players to suck out oxygen from a market segment), and you end up having to adapt your workflow to whatever remains or comes after.

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