I'm sorry but I disagree wholeheartedly with this post (and the way you presented it). Competition is healthy for any market, and for the businesses in that market. Giving consumers the option to choose between services means more flexibility to improve on what you have, and how you plan to introduce it.<p>Yes, Tumblr is a great application backed by some very competent developers out there, but have you given a look at Chyrp (<a href="http://www.chyrp.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.chyrp.net</a>)? The immediate user may not directly associate it with a tumblelog from the very beginning, but if you look at the way it's created, even look at the code it's obvious that's just what the application is, and it's doing incredibly well on it's own two feet.<p>Market economies are all about competition, supply and demand. I think you should take another look at what you've written, and what's going on in the web right now.