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Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

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Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

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Post by elliekelly »

slackoverflower wrote: post #8

Of course Facebook would made this change now. They have the freedom to do this now. They have effectively won social at this point. They control 3 of the biggest mobile social apps in the world: Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook itself. No startup really poses a realistic threat to them anymore. This policy change is just FB saving face in the eyes of regulators (and developers like here on HN).

Facebook's market position is certainly enviable but I (perhaps naively) think they will eventually be dethroned. WalMart was the retail king... until Amazon came along. I haven't heard a "WalMart kills small businesses" rant in at least five years. They've been replaced. Facebook will eventually suffer the same fate.

Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

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Post by Mtinie »

cortesoft wrote: post #28
akabaka777 wrote: post #18

That's it. I'm leaving anything related to facebook. I mean a company should have minimum level of ethics. This is a absolute trash of a company.

So you didn't leave when they HAD the policy banning competitors, but decide to leave when the remove the ban?

Because the ban limited their “ideas to clone” surface area and then someone realized it was a stupid move because they are out of substantive ideas to push the product forward?

Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

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Post by mike22223333 »

After all these lies by this trash company, I hope no one falls for the trap. They lie, and lie and lie again. Zero shame.

They can change the policy back at will just like Twitter when they feel like it. Don't develop on someone else's 'platform', especially if they have a shitty track record.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

Edit: why is my comment flagged?

Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

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Post by RhodesianHunter »

elliekelly wrote: post #40
sehugg wrote: post #7

Good idea, they'll get even more data on emerging competitors than they used to get from their traffic-sniffing VPN app before Apple pulled it from the App Store a few months ago: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/facebook-starts-pushing-it...

a Facebook VPN? what an oxymoron. how is this not a bigger story/discussion?

It was pretty big news at the time, but this being the year of outrageous news and all...

Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

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Post by mike22223333 »

elliekelly wrote: post #41
slackoverflower wrote: post #8

Of course Facebook would made this change now. They have the freedom to do this now. They have effectively won social at this point. They control 3 of the biggest mobile social apps in the world: Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook itself. No startup really poses a realistic threat to them anymore. This policy change is just FB saving face in the eyes of regulators (and developers like here on HN).

Facebook's market position is certainly enviable but I (perhaps naively) think they will eventually be dethroned. WalMart was the retail king... until Amazon came along. I haven't heard a "WalMart kills small businesses" rant in at least five years. They've been replaced. Facebook will eventually suffer the same fate.

But there is very little left to innovate. Almost all kinds of apps are there. AGI is only possible by large corps because of the massive compute requirement.

The next Google/Facebook will be made when either of the following criteria are met:

1. They mess up hard, causing a critical mass to boycott it (highly unlikely)

2. New world changing communication technology is invented, similar to the internet. With similar applications AND government regulations delaying them from developing on the new technology

3. Processing chips become so fast that the average person is able to afford and run a 1 petaflop computer just like the cost of buying and running a PC's today.

Amazon was possible because of the internet. Facebook will remain the King until some communication related world changing technology arrives.

The low hanging fruit is already picked.

Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

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Post by wlesieutre »

raspo wrote: post #16
npunt wrote: post #10

"We've run out of ideas for how to improve Facebook. Maybe we should let developers come up with some ideas again so we can copy them."

Exactly what I thought. "... and then, once we are satisfied for a couple more years, we can put the same policy back into place"

I doubt they need to, copying successful features is enough since their own version is the default and they can jam it in users faces in ways that third parties can't.

And just like their acquisitions based on Onvao data, they'll have a whole lot of information on what ideas are worth stealing.

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