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Internal emails show Zuckerberg and Facebook execs discuss cloning competitors
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#12Can someone explain to me why Facebook Messenger sucks so bad? The search function barely works, lags most of the time and scrolling up on conversations takes forever.
Discord is orders of magnitude better in those aspects.
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#13Honest question: Is this against the rules? If there's a market a company wants to enter, wouldn't they just analyze the cost to build (both product, and market/audience), vs. acquiring (both product, and market/audience), then pick the cheapest option?
Comes down to software patents.
This is a damning doc if another company is suing them for patent infringement.
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#146 man week for a "message read" animation. What the hell? Am I reading that right ?
It looked like for a general purpose animation library for Android, rather than using the native capabilities
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#156 man week for a "message read" animation. What the hell? Am I reading that right ?
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#16When I was at Netscape, marketing had every page of Yahoo up on a wall (printed out!), and there were teams assigned to recreating each and every one of them, verbatim. So, this isn't new.
But, like Steve Jobs said [1], good artists copy, great artists steal. It's one thing to take the essence, it's another to completely reproduce it with your own twist.
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#17Honest question: Is this against the rules? If there's a market a company wants to enter, wouldn't they just analyze the cost to build (both product, and market/audience), vs. acquiring (both product, and market/audience), then pick the cheapest option?
US rules against monopolies generally hold that the monopolist cannot clone competitors offerings.
Facebook is not yet a convicted monopolist
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#186 man week for a "message read" animation. What the hell? Am I reading that right ?
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#19Do they just not have awareness of these sorts of mails finding their way out?
I would have expected them to be more careful with what they say
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#20Copying has been in an other nation's playbook for a long time.
TikTok (Douyin really) is really just a copy of Vines for instance.
Facebook would be foolish not to look outward at the competition.