That advert is an incredibly tone deaf advert. Support the little guy! Yes, support little Mark Zuckerberg and his sole control of a $600Bn company. Has it ever occured to anyone in a multi billion dollar corporation that maybe it doesn't come across well to pretend you're fighting for the little guy. Why not take a break for once and just say "Hey, we're fucking enormous, no one even browses the web anymore, they browse facebook, so we've deigned to give you the smallest sliver of access to our amazing hoard of treasure - customers (in exchange for 90% of your profits)". At least it would be honest.
Introducing Facebook Shops
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#152lol FB trying to fuck over 3rd party sellers and Amazon is like go ahead chumps we've been at this for decades.
Seriously though who the hell trusts FB. Nobody. They should fold.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Random non rant: Thank you for being self aware enough to know that you are in the minority when it comes to not having Facebook. Most posts by people who don’t use FB and post to HN feign ignorance and say something like “I haven’t used FB in 10 years. Does anyone still use it?”
People in tech love to brag about not having / using FB :)
The irony. And these are the same people that conveniently don't realise their paychecks are enabled, at least in some small way, by Facebook. It's not everyone, but it's most.
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#154Hm, unlike classifieds, shopping is not a social activity, in fact most ppl would not like their friends to know what they re purchasing. And the shops would need to either duplicate inventory or lock it in facebook. They 've tried this before, and failed https://mashable.com/2012/02/21/facebook-brands-closing-stor... I don't think it will be better this time
> in fact most ppl would not like their friends to know what they re purchasing
Not true by my experience. In fact, lots of people go shopping together. Sure, some stuff is private. But most clothes, electronics, computer games, household, furniture etc etc is stuff people buy and share around all the time.
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#155lol FB trying to fuck over 3rd party sellers and Amazon is like go ahead chumps we've been at this for decades. Seriously though who the hell trusts FB. Nobody. They should fold.
>Seriously though who the hell trusts FB. Nobody.
2.6 billion monthly active users beg to differ
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#156"We’re also working more closely with partners like Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce..." Is Facebook Shops not a direct competitor to Shopify? Or is this just "embrace, extend, and extinguish"?
For a lot of stores, Shopify is just an API for your store. There's a big trend in ecommerce of going "headless" and using Shopify's API to push your products out to many channels. In that sense, Shopify is merely a special database (similar to Salesforce) to track your customers, orders, products, inventory, discounts, etc which is then pushed out to channels like Facebook Shop or Amazon.
Interesting - sounds like gumroad?
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#157Yes tie yourself to a large platform that can and will shut you down for political/social reasons.
Or just stick a paypal button on a static site.
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#158That advert is an incredibly tone deaf advert. Support the little guy! Yes, support little Mark Zuckerberg and his sole control of a $600Bn company. Has it ever occured to anyone in a multi billion dollar corporation that maybe it doesn't come across well to pretend you're fighting for the little guy. Why not take a break for once and just say "Hey, we're fucking enormous, no one even browses the web anymore, they br…
As always, when you’re everyone’s favorite punching bag: damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Would love to know how you got to them taking 90% of the profits. Are they even charging commissions or is this a scheme to drive more ads purchases?
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#159That advert is an incredibly tone deaf advert. Support the little guy! Yes, support little Mark Zuckerberg and his sole control of a $600Bn company. Has it ever occured to anyone in a multi billion dollar corporation that maybe it doesn't come across well to pretend you're fighting for the little guy. Why not take a break for once and just say "Hey, we're fucking enormous, no one even browses the web anymore, they br…
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#160I just wish we could read on HN tomorrow: "Introducing Antitrust action against Facebook (justice.gov)"
That's not likely to happen under this President unless MZ says something nasty about him.
Otherwise you'll probably have to wait until the next admin at least.