Facebook Tells Parse Developers “No Plans To Change How App Data Is Used”
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Re: Facebook Tells Parse Developers “No Plans To Change How App Data Is Used”
#2> Meanwhile, to calm fears about Facebook spying on Parse developer data, the company issued the statement “We currently have no plans to make any changes to how Parse app data is used.”
Keyword: currently
So yeah, we all rag on Facebook pretty hard here. What I'm most interested in is, if the uptick in adoption for Parse is true, why do developers feel more comfortable now that Facebook owns the product/company? Given the general pessimism about Facebook's fostering of their own API, and their laughable advocacy of privacy this whole article smacks of PR.
In my mind the whole modus operandi of companies like Facebook and Google is to absorb and mine as much information as possible. So if they aren't going to peek and analyze did they really just buy Parse for the API expertise?
Re: Facebook Tells Parse Developers “No Plans To Change How App Data Is Used”
#3Same thing we were told with Instagram, basically.
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#4Is this the same Facebook that would take a handoff approach to Instagram?
The first comment is right, currently being the keyword.
Re: Facebook Tells Parse Developers “No Plans To Change How App Data Is Used”
#5Is this the same Facebook that would take a handoff approach to Instagram? The first comment is right, currently being the keyword.
How did Instagram change since the purchase by Facebook? (honest question, I don't use Instagram at all)
Re: Facebook Tells Parse Developers “No Plans To Change How App Data Is Used”
#6Until, you know ... we change our mind.
Re: Facebook Tells Parse Developers “No Plans To Change How App Data Is Used”
#7> Meanwhile, to calm fears about Facebook spying on Parse developer data, the company issued the statement “We currently have no plans to make any changes to how Parse app data is used.” Keyword: currently So yeah, we all rag on Facebook pretty hard here. What I'm most interested in is, if the uptick in adoption for Parse is true, why do developers feel more comfortable now that Facebook owns the product/company? Giv…
"why do developers feel more comfortable now that Facebook owns the product/company?"
This happens with the majority of acquisitions that, as soon as they are acquired they see an uptick in signups. The uptick would be more interesting if they announced it in a month’s time or in an even longer period of time. There are several reasons for this including, the perception of “X has acquired them and they’re a massive company which means that the service will be around for a while” (which is not necessarily true) and the fact that, the acquired company gets a lot of press from areas they may previously not have done so they get new users either as customers or simply joining to ‘look’ at the service – although they may not become actual valuable users – by those I mean ‘look’ at the service, I’m talking about other employees of the acquiring company, shareholders of the acquiring company etc.
Re: Facebook Tells Parse Developers “No Plans To Change How App Data Is Used”
#8The question people keep asking: 'What does this change about whether or not developers will use Parse?'.
Before being acquired by Facebook, there was a non-trivial probability that Parse would not be around for the long run. Being backed by a large company that isn't going away anytime soon makes Parse a viable option for larger businesses that are more risk averse than smaller startups/developer shops. Early adopters are great for shaping a product, but the majority of the money is in those risk averse enterprises. In other words, being acquired by Facebook hops Parse to the other side of the chasm [1]. There was a similar effect with Heroku being acquired by Salesforce.
I'm not sure what the long term effects of being associated with Facebook's brand are going to be, but there generally is a lot of short term vitriol associated with anything Facebook does that eventually ends up being inconsequential; if I were Parse, I wouldn't be too concerned, especially when their actual numbers indicate developers haven't lost faith in them.
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#9Is this the same Facebook that would take a handoff approach to Instagram? The first comment is right, currently being the keyword.
How did Instagram change since the purchase by Facebook? (honest question, I don't use Instagram at all)
I'm not a heavy user of Instagram and am unqualified to answer how the product would be different were the company independent.
However, the most public change to Instagram that many blamed on facebook were the ToS changes that I've heard led to a non-trivial dip in engagement (the primary metric for facebook leadership):
Original Story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4936561
Response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939849
Backpedal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4950853
I have a very good friend who works at Parse, and I have nothing but deep respect and admiration for him and his work. He is well-deserving of this exit. He does not subscribe to the pessimism about the new 'facebook overlords.' I've known him long enough that I would expect him to tell me if that weren't the case.
Will facebook always keep to its PR statements? Only as long as they makes sense for their business... I'd vote 6 months to a year, personally :)
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#10Is this the same Facebook that would take a handoff approach to Instagram? The first comment is right, currently being the keyword.
How did Instagram change since the purchase by Facebook? (honest question, I don't use Instagram at all)
Nothing has really changed with Instagram since Facebook acquired it, there was the TOS debate but that was overblown. Instagram’s core operation is around being able to quickly take and share photos & adding filters etc and that hasn’t really changed.
The only thing they really have done, is launched on the web (they just launched on Android a few days before the acquisition) and scaled up the Instagram team. Likewise, they also enlarged photos on Facebook itself (although that was for everyone not just Instagram) - the fact that they haven’t even given them a tab in their app shows how autonomously Facebook have let Instagram run since acquiring it etc.
Having said that, Instagram now has to play by Facebook’s rules and I expect that we’re more likely to see further integration between the two going forward this year such as advertising etc.