Do you see how Hive has the core components to be a major threat to Twitter.
To be honest, not really. It is not a threat to Twitter. Nor to Facebook. Nor to YouTube. Maybe a very small competitor, but nothing more. Nowadays most people do not even want alternatives to these websites, so probably this will stay this way for a long time.
I believe your assessment is incorrect. History is riddled with companies that ended up losing their influence and revenues.
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Probably one day the above mentioned companies will also fail, but probably not in the near future. Of course I do not see the future, so this could also be in the near future. Anything can happen to any company any day. Even to the biggest companies. There is no such thing as too big to fail. Just the failure of these companies in the near future is highly unlikely, but not excluded.
Ashton-Tate in the world of databases. Borland in the world of computer language tools. Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets. WordStar and WordPerfect for word processing. AIM and Y!M for instant messengers.
IBM has been around for decades, but it had to adapt as technology moved from punch cards to magnetic tape to optical media. Likewise for Microsoft.
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Yeah the computer/internet world have even a longer list.
Compuserv and Prodigy belong on the list.
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While I agree with this point, it's not what we mean... Some people I know don't even know "internet." They only know Facebook, and only because they "need" to use it. (Many people in my country provide their services through Facebook.)
For Hive to replace that, they will have to need to use Hive. But that will be hard because Hive isn't easy to use for non-tech people.
Two points here:
you are correct about the ease of use. That has to improve, it is too complicated.
Hive also needs to be that. Most do not care about the database or back end. They simply will be able to microblog (Tweet) from the different platforms they are on. The fact they are on Hive is not going to matter to them. Instead they will only know they are on Leofinance.
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I hope it succeeds... Especially if Hive became less complicated to use, but I don't see a way right now.
I agree about the Leofinance bit, they don't need to know they're on Hive.
In the late 1980s, a Soviet cosmonaut from the USSR went into space for a long-term mission. When he returned to Earth, the USSR had dissolved into 15 independent nations (among them Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine). Also during the cosmonaut's time in space, the Berlin Wall fell; you know the rest.
For now, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are at the top of the heap. That can change. It may not seem like an immediate change, but sudden change takes years to occur. We may even be living in such a time right now.
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