6/ – On the other side, there is the need to address the customer demand to provide a certain set of platform capabilities out of the box.

Customers don’t want to rely on a single third party for a critical functionality, especially if it’s poorly integrated or overpriced.

7/ In part, it’s a problem of having to deal with multiple entities to support a single scenario.

In part, it’s poor leverage in deal negotiation.

9/ Every platform company has to deal with this tension, and when it does, it normally screws things up. We have seen it both in the B2C and in the B2B markets with Microsoft, VMware, Amazon, Apple, and many others.

8/ And so, sooner or later, platform companies find themselves in the difficult position of cannibalizing their own ecosystem by delivering out-of-the-box capabilities that are very similar or identical to the ones offered by their partners.

10/ At least in this phase of their lifecycle, OpenAI might decide that it’s more convenient to let its partners thrive rather than trying to offer everything for every use case.

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@alighodsi Well, thanks 5,000 @databricks employees!

👀 https://t.co/JBQSvJsJj7

There you go. Back in the office all week. If you read the whole thread, I said that this is a long-term game.
And the game is now over:
https://t.co/puEYtgFznf

Tech-savvy readers prefer much longer newsletter issues. Business-savvy readers prefer much shorter newsletter issues.

I try to write Synthetic Work in a way that it strikes a balance between the two perspectives. But it’s very possible that I’m dissatisfying both groups. 🙃

Let me re-title this article for you:
“Opera, the ad-supported web browser owned by a Chinese company, launches a free VPN for iOS, so you can be tracked across all devices & locations”

There. Better, no? >

Opera on iOS rolling out free VPN for all users https://t.co/sdUluY8o3b