On 12/31/2013 10:26 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
What makes the new email system different from other new communication
media with hundreds of millions of users and why is it necessary for it
to have those properties? Looking at Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook, Bit-
Torrent, and many others, it seems simple to achieve mass adoption.
Wow.
Please consider that things always look easy if one only studies successes.
In the case of new messaging systems, you need to look at the long and
varied history of the very many failures to gain adoption. Early
Arpanet efforts at multi-media and then X.400 offer early examples of
failures. Facebook and Google had major projects that more offer recent
examples.
Anyone who thinks that gaining global adoption of an infrastructure
service is easy either hasn't done it or doesn't understand what caused
their success.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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