It also forces devs working with some app's APIs to take payments through IAP. For example, last year Telegram forced all bot developers to accept payments only in their in app currency because Apple forced them

Great product... But the name...

I think I understand your point now. Even when you are marketing you still have to focus on one of the two main strategies you talked about.

Thanks for taking the time for the patient responses!

I was implying marketing.

Your example of a coffee shop at the airport fits.

I was thinking in terms of OTC shampoo brands. There are many of them. The brand that is most known to the people will probably end up as the winner in the market

This made me think for long - can't focusing on visibility be a strategy?

Focus on being the most visible to current and potential users without focusing on being the best or the cheapest. This makes you the first choice for many of them

I read this very interesting post by @ghuntley.com a few months ago on VScode and why the Visual Studio Code ecosystem is designed to fracture

ghuntley.com/fracture/

Which book is this?

What else?

Is "most popular" a strategy?

You are neither the best nor the cheapest but everybody knows about you

Napping is a superpower. Can't believe how people sit in an office for 8 hours without having the option to take a nap.

For some reason I read it as "random wisdom podcast" and I was so excited to follow it