Farcaster

Warpcast *is* the app. 

There aren’t going to be lots of popular interfaces. 

Power laws still apply. 

All the important engagement mechanics happen in the UI.

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The permissionless Farcaster API will be useful for specialized applications, but there won’t be more than a handful of relevant general purpose frontends and Warpcast will be the biggest.

This logic would say that Apple’s first party apps would automatically win.

How’d WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Signal do it?

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Currently: WhatsABI

iOS represents a large majority of $ on mobile, though.

For one, Apple's first party apps are limited to <30% of the global population. The functionality is historically very limited (especially relative to the timeline competitors released features).

As long as there's strong vacuums for competitors to fill, we should get competing clients. But also easy to sabotage.

What lesson could one take away from that when building?

they each control their own backend (protocol)

I would say, because the Android compatibility. If I was not forced to use these apps, I would not.