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Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by w1ntermute »

Apocryphon wrote: post #20
cletus wrote: post #12

This doesn't surprise me in that it seems like a natural fit for Facebook, who has a Mobile Problem [tm]. As much as people fear Facebook becoming The Internet (in the AOL sense), Facebook is actually really late to this party. Apple has a mobile OS, a content and payments ecosystem and a deeply integrated set of products. Google has a mobile OS, GMail, a search engine, a burgeoning content ecosystem and its Maps/loc…

Ironic that Google seems to have a social networking problem, while Facebook has a mobile problem.

Google should've bought Facebook years ago, when it was still small.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by rdouble »

mseebach wrote: post #19

I'm not a mobile developer, which is probably why I struggle to see what Parse does? What does Parse give me (if I was a mobile dev) that I don't get from Heroku+libs? Are push notifications and identity so painful to deal with that there's a business in creating a full platform to deal with it?

Are push notifications and identity so painful to deal with that there's a business in creating a full platform to deal with it?

Yes. (at least on iOS, not sure about Android or Win)

Parse has an iOS data object that syncs properly, whereas there is no evidence that any developer has ever gotten Apple's own iCloud + Core Data to sync properly at the record level.

Parse is cross platform so you can easily get the same data for a user on a desktop, web, android, iOS and windows mobile app.

Cobbling all this together with Heroku + libs would be possible but would require a lot of work. Parse just works out of the box.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by csmajorfive »

pxlpshr wrote: post #3

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.

Our focus on quality in product and documentation got us to this point so we're not going to change that strategy anytime soon :-)

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by avolcano »

w1ntermute wrote: post #22
Apocryphon wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ironic that Google seems to have a social networking problem, while Facebook has a mobile problem.

Google should've bought Facebook years ago, when it was still small.

Well, there's no guarantee that Google would have known what to do with it if they had ;)

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by cpher »

It's weird... Last night I had a completely "arbitrary" dream about this company. Like, my company was struggling with payments and this company was in my dream.

I'll acknowledge that I've been using CPAP for over a year and now can actually remember my dreams (_shudder_) because I sleep so well, and I don't actually use this service, but for some reason my dreams were very vivid. I'm not even sure why they might be relevant to me right now. Maybe I read too much HN before bed... ;)

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