In recent years, I started to feel differently. Sure, it’s nice if you have 1 app/1 tool to do a lot of things, but it comes at the price of dependency. When a service/tool turns to shit (which seems to be a matter of time in most cases), it’s so much harder to find something new.
So I tend to prefer a lot of different simple tools that can do one thing only, but they can do that one thing right. And if it turms to shit, I can just replace the single tool instead of having to find an alternative that can do everything.
Tools can focus on specific things and you can judge them based on how good they at doing the thing they do.
Platform?
Platforms create network effect lock in and breed complacency far, far more than a tool does.
Tools, sure, can induce a kind of brand loyalty type of squabbling, but platforms are an entire way of life, they become a default part of your identity and worldview. It becomes ludicrous, rage inducing, for you to imagine or consider not using the platform.
Oh you want the omni tool?
Omni tool requires you upload your soul to it, as collateral.
In recent years, I started to feel differently. Sure, it’s nice if you have 1 app/1 tool to do a lot of things, but it comes at the price of dependency. When a service/tool turns to shit (which seems to be a matter of time in most cases), it’s so much harder to find something new.
So I tend to prefer a lot of different simple tools that can do one thing only, but they can do that one thing right. And if it turms to shit, I can just replace the single tool instead of having to find an alternative that can do everything.
Tool vs Platform.
Tools can focus on specific things and you can judge them based on how good they at doing the thing they do.
Platform?
Platforms create network effect lock in and breed complacency far, far more than a tool does.
Tools, sure, can induce a kind of brand loyalty type of squabbling, but platforms are an entire way of life, they become a default part of your identity and worldview. It becomes ludicrous, rage inducing, for you to imagine or consider not using the platform.
Oh you want the omni tool?
Omni tool requires you upload your soul to it, as collateral.