My understanding is that its just straight up not profitable plus network effect. Requires too many resources to run the service and only profitable if doing data harvesting from users in the way that google/etc do.
Exactly. I don’t know if it’s still the case, but AFAIK even YT has always operated at a loss. Google (or Alphabet) pays the difference from their other profits because YT offers other indirect value to them such as market share and potential future profits.
My understanding is that its just straight up not profitable plus network effect. Requires too many resources to run the service and only profitable if doing data harvesting from users in the way that google/etc do.
Exactly. I don’t know if it’s still the case, but AFAIK even YT has always operated at a loss. Google (or Alphabet) pays the difference from their other profits because YT offers other indirect value to them such as market share and potential future profits.