"We've run out of ideas for how to improve Facebook. Maybe we should let developers come up with some ideas again so we can copy them."
Yeah this is the same thing I thought as well. It worked well for Twitter.
Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
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#22I think this is facebook getting scared of regulation and so thinking that if facebook's "features" get adopted more so, then they can be pinpointed by authorities less. My thoughts only.
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#23Reminded of this Chamath quote attributed to Bill Gates in an interview with Semil Shah about Facebook's platform. "I remember when we raised money from Bill Gates...and Gates said something along the lines of, 'That’s a crock of shit. This isn’t a platform. A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.'" http://haystack.vc/201…
> "I remember when we raised money from Bill Gates...and Gates said something along the lines of, 'That’s a crock of shit. This isn’t a platform. A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.'" Interesting. But Facebook's platform != Facebook, so I don't understand the maxim that "the value of everybody that uses the platform m…
Right they are a multinational advertising corporation that tricks people into believing that Facebook.com = Facebook. It’s still a crock of shit however you want to slice it up.
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#24That's it. I'm leaving anything related to facebook. I mean a company should have minimum level of ethics. This is a absolute trash of a company.
How is this, of ALL things unethical?
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#25So Facebook copies every major app and service and then destroys its lifeline immediately killing the work of creators who innovated. Immediately after that Facebook copies the exact same service resulting in little risk, ingenuity and an almost certainty of success.
Sad truth is many great developers will trust them again because there’s a huge opportunity here but they’ll be smarter this time around. Don’t put all the eggs in the same basket and plan ahead a solid pivot when (not if) Facebook renegs.
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#26Of course Facebook would made this change now. They have the freedom to do this now. They have effectively won social at this point. They control 3 of the biggest mobile social apps in the world: Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook itself. No startup really poses a realistic threat to them anymore. This policy change is just FB saving face in the eyes of regulators (and developers like here on HN).
I think you're getting ahead of yourself. TikTok stands a real chance to dethrone them over the next X years.
I think TikTok is going to have the staying power of vine. While Im glad for the people that enjoy tiktok type content have an app where they can create and consume this kind of content, it offers no appeal to me.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're getting ahead of yourself. TikTok stands a real chance to dethrone them over the next X years.
I thought TikTok was sort of like, Vine mixed with Musical.ly - is it a robust enough offering to do messaging/events/groups/marketplace, etc?
I dont see my HAM radio group making the transition from FB to TikTok.
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#28That's it. I'm leaving anything related to facebook. I mean a company should have minimum level of ethics. This is a absolute trash of a company.
So you didn't leave when they HAD the policy banning competitors, but decide to leave when the remove the ban?
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#29That's it. I'm leaving anything related to facebook. I mean a company should have minimum level of ethics. This is a absolute trash of a company.
Are you a bot? It makes no sense for you to be so mad about something so innocuous.
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#30"We've run out of ideas for how to improve Facebook. Maybe we should let developers come up with some ideas again so we can copy them."
"Good composers borrow, great composers steal"