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When Nokia people looked at the first iPhone, they saw a not-great phone with some cool features that they were going to build too, being produced at a small fraction of the volumes they were selling. They shrugged. “No 3G, and just look at the camera!”
Original: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/8/29/tesla-software-and-disruption
‘A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.’
Original: https://stratechery.com/2018/the-bill-gates-line/
At the end of the day, use the Spotify model as an inspiration for what’s possible when you spend time and attention developing your own operating system — not as a model for what your own system may end up looking like. Design, test, and evolve your own model as inclusively as possible. Don’t do a big-bang change towards a new static target operating model, but instead build the muscle for continuous participatory change.
Original: https://medium.com/the-ready/how-to-build-your-own-spotify-model-dce98025d32f
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