Network effects and Feedback loops — the Betamax and VHS story

Rob Finney
Product Coalition
Published in
7 min readOct 9, 2018

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Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash

As a teenage boy in Australia in the early 1980’s, I would regularly go down to the local video store in the Brisbane suburb of Albion to rent a movie. It was a novel concept for those of us privileged enough to have a Video Cassette player (a.k.a. a VCR) in the home.

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