Facebook buys Parse

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Post by uptown » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:00 PM UTC

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by aashaykumar92 » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:11 PM UTC

It's nice to see Facebook is aware of the areas which it lacks in. Just recently (in the last couple of days), there was an article clearly saying how mobile developers are in fact turning away from Facebook, for a variety of reasons. Acquiring Parse is not only demonstrating acknowledgment of this problem, but also providing a potential solution and way to tackle the problem.

Congratulations to the Parse team and good luck in helping to bring more developers to Facebook's platform! Given Parse's success so far, I don't see how or why Facebook shouldn't benefit from this acquisition.

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Post by pxlpshr » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:12 PM UTC

Congrats to the Parse team!!

As a customer, not necessarily happy about this. I don't like Doug Purdy's quote, "We don’t intend to change this." We use Parse and love it. I really hope they maintain some autonomy as to not get sucked into the "move fast and break things" or "documentation? f--k it." Nonetheless, probably makes a lot of sense for Facebook's mobile strategy.

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Post by oneplusone » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:13 PM UTC

Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?

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Post by zan2434 » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:13 PM UTC

Whoa. This is pretty big news. This + Piecable + Facebook's huge push in mobile development recently = Facebook building a new, simpler development platform/environment for mobile apps? This speculation can be taken pretty far.

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Post by sinzone » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:13 PM UTC

Soon FB will monetize most of their APIs too. Example: Real-time access to all its social stream is going to be a paid usage API.

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Post by tsurantino » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:14 PM UTC

Could this mean that Facebook is positioning itself as the AWS (in a very metaphoric sense) for mobile and expanding opportunities for the Facebook kapp ecosystem?

I understand that this is a new revenue stream for the company but I've never really seen the Facebook apps platform spawn "fully-fledged" apps other than those that boasted some form of basic Facebook integration. On the desktop at least, a Facebook app has always existed as a second-class citizen, being on a separate page that is segregated from the rest of the Facebook experience. Of course, you can argue that News Feed integration is one way to mitigate that, but from what I've seen, such integration is sparse and jarring - serving as an ad for the application that people on Facebook see.

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Post by aespinoza » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:15 PM UTC

oneplusone wrote: post #4

Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?

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Post by abijlani » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:15 PM UTC

I'm a big fan of Parse even though I prefer Firebase as a developer. This is sad news because I think they were one company that was executing really well and would have been successful on their own. Even though Facebook and Parse say they are not going to shutdown the service we all know how that story goes.

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Post by cgshaw » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 9:16 PM UTC

oneplusone wrote: post #4

Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?

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