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So Facebook realizes that it’s namesake website isn’t producing as much value as it used to, and that by enabling users to customize their experience they retain control of the data. But how can they monetize the third party apps? Acquisitions? Betting most users will continue using the core website?
This is my guess. A desperate attempt to bring back its core users.
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Source on that 5% figure? Can't find it with a couple of quick searches.
Made an estimate from my personal experience. Simply saying, "only a fraction of developers..." would be a weaker statement.
I'd have to read the actual policy, but i think this would enable two cool things: - Third party Facebook and messenger apps - Bridges between Facebook and other social networks (where you have a FB proxy account that you don't touch manually) Thinking of it, it seems unlikely that this is actually going to be allowed. More likely, they are talking about if Facebook makes e.g. their own Candy Crush, you are still all…
And for the love of whatever, please let me use my phone's camera app.
Before you try to prove me wrong - are you sure you didn't just get used to it? Because I don't like to get used to stuff I don't like.
They had a platform. Then they killed it by killing anybody who did something better than them on the platform. Now they have a burned out husk of a platform. Who wants to live and work in that? The kids don't even like facebook, anymore (perhaps partly because it's been stagnant due to lack of fresh outside ideas, I dunno...it's not really my area, and I've always been ambivalent about facebook even when it was stil…
I'd have to read the actual policy, but i think this would enable two cool things: - Third party Facebook and messenger apps - Bridges between Facebook and other social networks (where you have a FB proxy account that you don't touch manually) Thinking of it, it seems unlikely that this is actually going to be allowed. More likely, they are talking about if Facebook makes e.g. their own Candy Crush, you are still all…
I'd love a 3rd party Messenger client. I absolutely despise their app. It isn't even an IM client anymore - there are tons of irrelevant features that make it hard to use, e.g. the Games tab, the tab with bots and the Days. And for the love of whatever, please let me use my phone's camera app. Before you try to prove me wrong - are you sure you didn't just get used to it? Because I don't like to get used to stuff I d…
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They put an enforceable promise in there that they wouldn't do that. Wait no, they could have but didn't.
Why would a company ever impose binding restrictions on itself?
Companies imposing binding restrictions on themselves is vital to loads of types of business. An insurance company binds themselves to pay out if you make a valid claim, for example.
"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."
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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"?
No, people just say it incorrectly. It should be 'couldn't care less'.
Not that I disagree that it hasn't happened yet. I too find it quite annoying when people say they "could care less".