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Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by anoncow »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #93
jjuliano wrote: post #71

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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…

Oh, this. Shutting down services is different to restricting services to your own platform. Perhaps you have a point, perhaps Google would hypothetically have decided to shut down Parse had they acquired it, but it's not fair to suggest they'd have limited it to Android.

Doesn't make business sense to ignore the scores using iOS.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by Todd »

fizzbar wrote: post #133
tn13 wrote: post #102

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I think it is already a bigger problem. In past Google has always been quick to accept their failures and correct it's course but with their social networking product I think they are not willing to admit that they are a miserable failure.

Way, way too soon to declare G+ a miserable failure. It's the lynchpin to their long term strategy for maintaining their dominance and relevance in Search, which in turn is how their Golden Goose of ad revenue lays its eggs. Whether us schmuck users like or dislike it is irrelevant. At some point, G+ will be mandatory, as someone in Slate (i think, or maybe on quora somewhere) recently wrote...

If Google makes G+ mandatory, then they expose themselves to competitors that don't require such ties.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by kayoone »

zw wrote: post #167
aashaykumar92 wrote: post #33

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Do you really think Zuckerberg would have agreed to that? I doubt it. Facebook was still relatively small when Yahoo offered to buy them for $1 billion but Zuckerberg didn't give it much thought at all.

But, honestly, in the mid-2000's, would you have wanted to be bought by Yahoo?

Honestly, 1 billion $ for a 2 year old startup, i wouldnt have thought twice.

Its easy to say Zuckerberg did the right thing in hindsight of course.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by modarts »

This is really disheartening. I'm glad that I only build a POC on top of Parse before fully diving in.

Any recommendations for comparable services (something with a decent javascript api would be nice; i'm not doing a whole lot with native mobile)

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by wonderyak »

chubot wrote: post #79
w1ntermute wrote: post #22

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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.

A social network they didn't let anyone into; seriously don't understand how you expect to develop a social network/platform with a limited beta test.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by modarts »

jamesgpearce wrote: post #91
corylehey wrote: post #57

And I was having such a great day until I read this. R.I.P. Parse

Why? No plans to let it rest.

I'm sure that's not Ilya and team's plan; but the issue is that they no longer have ownership of their "plan".

I'm struggling to see how this isn't blatantly obvious to a lot of commenters here.

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Post by skrebbel »

burgreblast wrote: post #186
aswanson wrote: post #176

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Mandatory. As in a dictate under a threat, perceived or existent. How do you figure?

Mandatory. As in activate G+ to keep using YouTube. Then Gmail.

Having an account is not the same as using it. I mean, I have a facebook account, and I don't even know what facebook looks like.

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

vabmit wrote: post #89
smrtinsert wrote: post #54

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Facebook has a mindshare problem. I no longer consider it a driving force in my social interaction and I'm of the older generation. The younger generation seems to have abandoned it already. It's now a deposit for the occasional family photo and lately seems to be full of chain spam. When you think back to the history of social networks (AOL, Compuserv, Friendster, Myspace) these things don't have a great half-life.…

I've noticed this, too. I still log into FB often. But, my FB feed is dead. Only 1 of my 100+ friends still posts something regularly (every week or two). At first, I just thought people created filters that didn't include me (when that feature was introduced). But, they're just not using FB anymore. Thinking back, I almost totally stopped posting stuff around the time they did because the site just began to feel cre…

Regardless of Facebook's future, I can say with a certainty that human beings, as a social species, are very unlikely to stop being so at any point in the near or distant future.
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