[basch]

chicken and egg.

You need people to use it to have value. It needs to have value for people to use it.

The use/value proposition will tilt towards it as a generation turns over from people who grew up with search to people who grew up with chat.

Suddenly itll be a commoditized free feature, that if you dont offer it, people will go work somewhere else that embraces. Give it time.

[rsynnott]

> The use/value proposition will tilt towards it as a generation turns over from people who grew up with search to people who grew up with chat

There is no possible way that the current level of money-burning can be sustained for anything _like_ that long. I'd say if major players don't start showing a profit on this stuff within a year or so, the bubble will become unsustainable.

[bloedsinnig]

Check out how much money gets burned and how much money companies like Microsoft and Google actually make.