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Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by jjuliano »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #44
jjuliano wrote: post #39

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Given the very lucrative and competitive mobile market space, we will likely to see tremendous updates in the Android platform if Google have acquired it. At least Facebook won't be biased about what mobile platform to support, it can support all other platforms without focusing on specific Android. I use Parse as my backend for my iOS apps and it is absolutely useful. They provided a great service and the mPaAS appr…

That's not really fair. Google seem to work very hard to provide a first class iOS experience on their own services. No reason to assume they'd shut that down on something they acquired.

Well,

1. They shut down their acquired companies and their products on many occasions that many people are dependent upon

2. They shut down a handful of Google tools many people are dependent upon

3. They even close people's Google accounts.

Use their service, yes, but trust them after all of this dents they made? maybe.

The weight of their actions is so great, I can't even begin to talk about matters in relation to trust on their side. It's just _hard_.

I'm glad Facebook acquired Parse.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by dsfasfasf »

avolcano wrote: post #28
w1ntermute wrote: post #22

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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 ;)

At worst they could have killed it instead of having to fight it. At best, it could have become what it is today or at least something similar.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by rdouble »

bitcartel wrote: post #65
csmajorfive wrote: post #27

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

What did your revenues look like? This acquisition doesn't really tell us if Parse, based around a proprietary SDK, had a viable business model or not.

Back end services like these are a lot of work for limited financial reward, which is why they almost all eventually sell, if they can.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by jkubicek »

pifflesnort wrote: post #53
rdouble wrote: post #26

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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…

> Yes. (at least on iOS, not sure about Android or Win) er, what? It's an afternoon's worth of work, involving basic PKI and TCP sockets. I know it's an afternoon's worth of work, because I've done it in an afternoon.

That's silly. Seeing as how I had to google PKI to see what it was, I doubt I'd be able to build a Parse-like service in one afternoon. Parse may not be strictly necessary, but it's a fantastically easy and cheap way for iOS (and Android and front-end and Windows Phone) developers to get their backend up and running.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by evan_ »

csmajorfive wrote: post #27
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 :-)

You no longer control your own destiny, you will do what Facebook tells you to do :-)

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by mattberg »

davidkatz wrote: post #46

Parse is handling 10 million requests for our app per month, and I'm very uneasy about this.

Agree, I send millions of Push Notifications via Parse and I am also quite worried. I love their interface and documentation so I really don't want to switch.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by chubot »

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

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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.

Meh, that never works. Remember Yahoo also offered $1B for Google in 2002 or so.

Google had a social network that launched in 2004 as well, at almost the exact same time as Facebook -- Orkut.

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