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Yeah, I'm going to believe that a company that basically lives on doing A/B testing on engagement in a data sharing GUI (facebook.com) with a hobby in PR-creati
by johansch 10y ago
Yeah, I'm going to believe that a company that basically lives on doing A/B testing on engagement in a data sharing GUI (facebook.com) with a hobby in PR-creating "hardware innovation" has suddenly beaten about a hundred thousand world-class RF/EE engineers in e.g. Ericsson, Nokia-Siemens, Qualcomm, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung.
The only way FB beats these guys is in marketing reach.
- wmf 10y agoSince those other companies don't talk much about what's in their labs, for all we know they are already ahead of Facebook. Also, consider that Facebook may have hired people with years or decades of experience from those very companies.
- johansch 10y agoWell, this is going to get them to talk about their progress in this field, at least. :)
- wmf 10y agoMaybe. Or maybe the legacy vendors will double down on their old "you need standards compliance, backwards compatibility, support contracts, and a sales channel" line.
- johansch 10y agoI think you're mixing things up. a) These companies do love to brag about technical accomplishments. They each have hundreds of product marketing and engineering people for this purpose alone. b) When they do sell, they will indeed double down on the things you mentioned.
- the_watcher 10y agoSo you're unaware of the open data center work that they have open sourced, which is innovative in countless ways?
- johansch 10y agoYou're speaking of their open source mechanical design of a rack-mounted PC? Yeah, relatively speaking that is entirely unsubstantial. The mere fact that you're comparing this to the amount of research that goes into radio/network protocol design by the big companies is hilarious, I have to say. But also cute. Do stay ambitious :).