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..yeah, that's why we are all talking about Mastodon and Diaspora right now, because there was a massive hole they rushed in to fill. Funny how even on HN people have completely forgotten about the former; I haven't seen it on the feed here in weeks.

Youtube is untenable, lol. Hey everyone, the Ipod was untenable! Everyone is moving to Microsoft Zune! Ninja is going to livestream on Mixer, that will teach Twitch!

This is like the Death of Wal-mart or something, people constantly proclaim it but it keeps chugging along.

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Youtube will be fine, it is a pretty good platform as long as you aren't looking for political opinions.

And Apple has historically been very methodical about closing down opportunities to compete with their products. The only part of the market they leave open is the part that has no money. There was a truly funny span of time when the iPhone accounted for more than 100% of the phone market because other mobile manufacturers were making losses. The Zune never had an obvious market segment that it could target.

At the moment, anyone trying to produce right wing content would have to be mad to be comfortable on the major platforms. Even Amazon seems to be unreliable after what looks a lot like a political hit on Parler. There is a large, obvious & dissatisfied group to target here and potentially a valuable advertising market.

I recall there was a point in time where my boss had an iPod, my co-worker had a Zune, and I had a Sandisk E250.

They had some fairly different niches-- both the iPod and Zune were in the relatively narrow selection of high-capacity, hard-disc based MP3 players. In that environment, tje iPod was the minimalist option-- less complex UI, seamless package, but feature-poor. The Zune offered far more features and customizability. I can recall being aghast that you couldn't get a FM radio feature on an iPod, when the cheapest 'flash drive with dreams of grandeur' MP3 players offered it. (This, of course, being relevant when a 2Gb player wouldn't contain enough music to feel "infinite" and you'd want more variety)

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