Digg fired the ultimate footgun when they literally reformatted their entire site and ignored feedback.

That’s how I found reddit - the great digg exodus, about 15 years ago.

Given that Facebook bafflingly renamed their entire company “Meta”, I wouldn’t put a Digg-like move past them.

I think the name change pretty clearly indicates that Facebook, er, Meta agrees with the OP.

The Facebook property itself has pretty clearly already reached the high water mark. So they change the parent company name to make the distinction that Meta is not just Facebook, which they're hoping will insulate themselves from one of their products fading away as they bring up new separate social products that solve the generational silo requirement of the market.

That rename certainly doesn't inspire much confidence.

They both had a direct competitor that had been stalking them for years before implosion, and neither were as well established or well funded as Meta/Facebook.

For sure. That was a pretty different era though! There was still uncertainty about who would win, but Facebook is the Google of social media networks at this point. There is an incredible amount of resistance to uproot them.

Is google really that sticky in 2022? Android is bleeding market share, maps and search are undifferentiated. They have an ad network and an office suite, but the network effects of those last two are middling, at best.

Sure, there's switching inertia, but there's no "killer app" that consumers lose by leaving the google ecosystem. (Except YouTube, I guess.)

Android is bleeding marketshare to whom? PalmOS? Windows Mobile? Outside of the Great Firewall they dominate everything.

Apple's IOS is shrinking globally due to Apple chasing premium customers and pricing itself out of the market. An iPhone SE is $399 after discounting, the average selling price for a smartphone outside the US is about $90.

The iPhone 13 is a truly fantastic product, state of the art with an SOC that is years ahead of the competition. I'm truly privileged not only to own one, but to live in a country where the average man on the street can also afford to buy one for every member of his family. But I'm part of a tiny minority.

In the US at least, iOS has higher uptake than android for the first time ever in younger age cohorts https://fburl.com/2m6hv5lb

I recall a recent article on HN about this

Google search is not going anywhere and nobody is building a popular android alternative anytime soon.