I just realized that bar at the top of the page design meme has gotten really popular after facebook.
It's not a meme, people copy stuff that works.
Isn't that the definition of a meme?
Facebook launches App Center
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Re: Facebook launches App Center
#32Most of FB's products look cheap, and ad-oriented made for naive users. There is a lack of design, and perfectionism. Compare the FB page with http://www.apple.com/iphone/from-the-app-store/
Like Zuckerberg said: Move fast, fix later. Design is important (hell, I'm a designer) but not the most important thing when launching. They'll improve it later. They didn't go around buying up talented designers like SOFA for nothing: http://www.madebysofa.com/
Facebook is sitting on tons of cash. If they cannot attract talented designers then they are in trouble.
Design is very important IMO. You think the majority of fb users will say 'oh look at those nice features'? I bet you not, they'll say I like Facebook or I don't like Facebook because that's how they feel. Design highly influences the user's feelings.
Re: Facebook launches App Center
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
its not just Facebook with us-only or us-first products. i believe it has to do with legal issues with other countries.........or good old beta testing
That's ridiculous. A free-of-charge iOS app can be published world-wide literally with the click of a single checkbox ("All stores") in iTunesConnect.
Has this always been the case? No, Apple gradually made all these countries available.
Terms of use have to be drafted and reviewed by lawyers for each country. This will take time. Why go through all that trouble and wait months if you can gain valuable insights by a quick launch in your most importanht market?
Re: Facebook launches App Center
#34"lets you browse the apps your friends use" & "If a mobile app requires a download, you’ll be sent to install it from the Apple App Store or Google Play."
Are they anything more than a filter on the existing app stores based on my friends usage? What is my motivation as a user to install their app store?
Also, I checked the Privacy settings on my Facebook account and it is not clear how to ensure my app usage is not shared with others. Features first, respect of users' privacy last.
Re: Facebook launches App Center
#35Facebook has lost it... they seem to have completely lost focus on what they are trying to do. They just made their user experience even worse by adding more crap.
So, Facebook is going to fail because they only have Ads.
And Facebook is going to fail when they release products other than ads?
Re: Facebook launches App Center
#36Facebook has lost it... they seem to have completely lost focus on what they are trying to do. They just made their user experience even worse by adding more crap.
So, Facebook is going to fail because they only have Ads. And Facebook is going to fail when they release products other than ads?
It's to the point that there's probably a small handful of people who comment on Facebook that are worth listening to.
The saturation point has been reached and there's very little original thought left, just endless regurgitation of shallow "analysis".
FB will do what FB does.
Re: Facebook launches App Center
#37Most of FB's products look cheap, and ad-oriented made for naive users. There is a lack of design, and perfectionism. Compare the FB page with http://www.apple.com/iphone/from-the-app-store/
Like Zuckerberg said: Move fast, fix later. Design is important (hell, I'm a designer) but not the most important thing when launching. They'll improve it later. They didn't go around buying up talented designers like SOFA for nothing: http://www.madebysofa.com/
" Like Zuckerberg said: Move fast, fix later."
And you will have a good enough product but never an awesome one, as "later" never comes, and when it comes the person that created the feature is not in the company or is not available or does not remember why he did it the way he did it or they are cascade bugs....
This approach was used by American cars and was very good for testing different things while the industry evolved, but when industry matured the Japanese(and German) with the "stop the assembly line until the bug is fixed" won.
Sometimes good enough wins, some time perfectionism does.
Re: Facebook launches App Center
#38"lets you browse the apps your friends use" & "If a mobile app requires a download, you’ll be sent to install it from the Apple App Store or Google Play." Are they anything more than a filter on the existing app stores based on my friends usage? What is my motivation as a user to install their app store? Also, I checked the Privacy settings on my Facebook account and it is not clear how to ensure my app usage is not…
Seems like a trojan horse disruption tactic to me. Playing nice at first, then when they get some real traction, they'll reveal their true intentions.
Re: Facebook launches App Center
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's ridiculous. A free-of-charge iOS app can be published world-wide literally with the click of a single checkbox ("All stores") in iTunesConnect.
Has this always been the case? No, Apple gradually made all these countries available. Terms of use have to be drafted and reviewed by lawyers for each country. This will take time. Why go through all that trouble and wait months if you can gain valuable insights by a quick launch in your most importanht market?
Also all submitted apps goes through scrutiny before getting published. To make sure they dont violate any top conflicting issues in your distribution store
Re: Facebook launches App Center
#40"The App Center will begin rolling out to people in the U.S. today" What is up with Facebook and US-only products? Their Camera app is not available in most countries. Even their app for managing Pages isn't available in my app store (they still keep showing me the annoying message to download it). And it takes them literally order of magnitude of months (if ever) to get their products worldwide, like with Facebook c…
You need to translate things for an international rollout which takes time. Plus US is a known devil and easier to rollout and look at numbers to fix the glitches.