keso推荐一篇文章，引用“作为政府的网络服务”，很棒的一个分析。

这一段是将平台控制方类比为政府。

> A lot of people have begun using the term ecosystem to describe these big > platforms. That captures their decentralized, emergent character, but > ecosystems do not have a central point of control. Apple decided to > eliminate third party analytics between one release and the next. That > doesn’t happen in an ecosystem. The right analogy is a government.

下面这一段则让我联想到注明的“上者由之…最下者与之争”的中国古哲：

> If you accept the analogy of web services as governments, the example of > Craigslist offers a couple of insights. First, it’s possible to be > fabulously profitable as a restrained government, but perhaps at the expense > of top line revenue (or the government’s share of total GDP). And second, > that no web service is an island. Web services will compete with each other > for the time and attention of their users and for investment from the > private sector (applications developers), but they will do this in the > context of their host government’s who are also competing for tax revenues > and private sector investment.

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出处： http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2010/06/web-services-as-governments.php *布拉德 伯纳姆 **2010年6月10日* * * * *