@patrickmcgee.bsky.social just finished reading Apple in China, fantastic book. Was telling my wife, who is Sri Lankan, about it, and she made this observation - 'sounds like colonialism - more technologically advanced entity comes in, their purpose is to maximally extract wealth out of the target..

Wtf is this button.

Twitter is an easily clonable app right? Not to trivialise what's required to make it performant. Yet there is no Twitter clone that has immediately taken its place. Moral of the story is that there's more to a successful product just being technically and aesthetically good.

Oof, so BlueSky is a little slow yeah?