He gets at a really smart point here, and it's really the most important one of the article: if your existence helps secure others' existence, then you're sitting in the catbird seat. To paraphrase a professor of mine from a couple years ago, why steal pieces of the pie from others when you can spend your time making the pie a lot bigger for everyone?
The best-designed platforms not only get better with more apps, but they make it so that the presence of every new app benefits all the others.
The best-designed platforms not only get better with more apps, but they make it so that the presence of every new app benefits all the others.