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April 5, 2013 09:30 pm
Original Link: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/05/the-imperialism-of-facebook-home/
Editorial: The imperialism of Facebook Home
Business battles are often ecosystem battles, in which brands develop a matrix of conveniently connected products and services, in an attempt to lock customers into a dependency. Offline companies follow this tack (think razors and blades). But the internet, with its many connection nodes, crossovers to tangential realms and parallel on-ramps is where ecosystem wars are most elaborately waged.
Only rarely do market conditions cultivate a broader ambition in which a company has a chance to step beyond mere ecosystem competition to a higher level of sovereignty. Facebook's imminent release of Home represents a stab at that rare imperialism.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, HTC, Facebook
Original Link: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/05/the-imperialism-of-facebook-home/
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