Negative network effect: where something is unraveling and getting disconnected or discarded exponentially fast.
Eg. Abandonment of film cameras. I think I last had a roll of film developed in 1999. Massive pile of cameras got junked in just a year or two.
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Technically, that term is associated more with congestion i.e. More usage by the network leads to Lower value. Follows similar graph though if abandonment is an option.
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Dumb phones too. Jesus, the flip phone and blackberry became obsolete in like two years.
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When something new is so good there is no coming back. Over here film cameras lagged well into 2003-2004, mostly due to digital being relatively expensive. Printing photos into paper albums, on the other hand, still refuses to die a decade later, fighting with tooth and nail.
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I visualize it a little like the waves created at the back of a fast-moving boat (the boat in this case = digital cameras, then phones)
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What is general purpose vehicles? Google only returns military hardware that makes no sense in context.
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But what’s the “network” here? This is just rapid obsolescence.
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Adding headcount is another example of negative network effects.






