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This was not a crucial tactical error, it was a deliberate gamble.

Disruptive communication is hard, and they lost this gamble. That does not make it an error :)

(Snapchat, Whatsapp, etc, all are things int he "must fully jump onboard or ignore it", and they've done fine, because they are incremental improvements that are less disruptive).



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