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Great, if anyone has any spare cycles - please rip out Events from Facebook into another app so I don't have to open Facebook anymore.
This and messenger are the only reasons I haven't closed my account.
Anybody that builds an app on a "platform" that can be taken away overnight is a fool. Facebook has made it clear that if they want to change a policy, they could care less about your "business".
Reminded 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…
At the time though I believe all of Facebook's economic value came from Facebook, so that the was the worth of the company.
So 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…
>they’ll be smarter this time around. Nah. There's a fool born every second. Just 5% of developers actually follow tech news. The rest have allowed their jobs to take over their lives. If people bothered to pay attention to the past, the world would be a much better place. Google, Apple, FB... wouldn't be this dominant because we would have learned from the recent past.
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>they’ll be smarter this time around. Nah. There's a fool born every second. Just 5% of developers actually follow tech news. The rest have allowed their jobs to take over their lives. If people bothered to pay attention to the past, the world would be a much better place. Google, Apple, FB... wouldn't be this dominant because we would have learned from the recent past.
Source on that 5% figure? Can't find it with a couple of quick searches.
Anybody that builds an app on a "platform" that can be taken away overnight is a fool. Facebook has made it clear that if they want to change a policy, they could care less about your "business".
Off topic, but as a non-english native speaker the phrase "could care less" always bothers me as I read it literally to mean someone does indeed care, since they can care less. Is this one of those cases where the meaning changes through actual use like "literally" now meaning not necessarily "to be taken literally"?
Great, if anyone has any spare cycles - please rip out Events from Facebook into another app so I don't have to open Facebook anymore.
This is great timing. My new startup, EvilCorp is just about to launch a new social platform where we give your private data directly to Russians trying to subvert our Democracy. Now we can just launch directly on Facebook since they no longer ban us from copying this core feature.
Even if you were targeted with racist misinformation, isn't it your responsibility not to be easily convinced?