Jaffe: Economists like to measure things, and rank things. So there's a website...
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says that Java sits between them, goes into platform economics
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Jaffe: There are three key concepts [in platform economics] that are important to understand what happened here.
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Jaffe: In economics they are called network effects, expectations, and tipping points.
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Network effects: Java value affected by how many people are writing Java
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Expectations: you care about how big a platform is going to be in the future
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Tipping points: "when you bring together network effects and expectations... success feeds success and failure breeds failure"
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Jaffe: There's a point where everyone believes someone is going to be the winner.
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Oracle: What is the importance of timing on network success?
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Jaffe: It's a huge advantage to be there early, if you come late, you're playing catch-up.
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man doesn't this just point to like Oracle frittering away a huge head start despite holding a weird monopoly over a ubiquitous platform
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Jaffe: The size of the developer network is what makes Java valuable. ...They've spent a lot of money in [expanding the dev community]
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this is so weird
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Jaffe: Monetization is just a fancy word for making money.
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Jaffe: It frequently makes sense for the owner of a platform to make it available for an open source license...
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Jaffe: ....that doesn't take away from the royalty-bearing licenses that the device manufacturers pay.
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Back to how many things run Java. Again, automobiles. Java is in your car.

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Oracle: How does Google make money? Jaffe: Google makes money almost entirely by selling advertising.
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Says at the time of this controversy, was making money through ads from searches on desktop,
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but that everyone knew mobile was supplanting desktop.
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Jaffe says "it was crucial for Google to ensure that as the transition occurred" people were still searching via Google
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Google objects, Alsup has to explain to jury the role of an expert witness (not to testify on facts of the case)
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TED Talks and Hacker News Comments: The Nightmare That is Oracle v. Googlehttps://twitter.com/xor/status/733006019735904256 …
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Jaffe's testimony is, like, fine, I think the thing that bothers me the most is how much he gets to opine on law
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(he's not supposed to, but come, he is)
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I think he already did a "IANAL, but"https://twitter.com/guan/status/733006707987714048 …
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Jaffe says there's an Android chicken & egg problem. Android needed developers to make its phone a success, & needed devices manufacturers
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He's basically saying that devs wouldn't write for Android without a platform like Java, device manufacturers wouldn't pick up w/o devs
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Is he going to go into the history of the iPhone???
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Jaffe: Google solved this problem by using the Java API. Google: OBJECTION, your honor.
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Alsup: I think this beyond the scope of what an economist can say. Oracle: *tries again* From an economist standpoint, how did Google ...
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