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> the friction of switching providers

Without this the gravity is much less powerful. Seems like where to focus if you want to empower people against the winner take all monopoly effect.

Areas where switching costs are low are areas where you have standard APIs and where your data resides locally, is easy to move, or are not data intensive at all.




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