Hmmm, yeah. I guess I agree that the dictator approach does in fact land more successful products. But, like Calcanus has recently spouted off "Facebook has ove

Hmmm, yeah. I guess I agree that the dictator approach does in fact land more successful products. But, like Calcanus has recently spouted off "Facebook has overplayed their hand", and I think the same goes for Apple. It is true that I do not represent the mainstream, but Facebook's recent privacy actions has caught the attention of the US Congress. Congress people make a living by throwing grass in the air to see which way the political wind is blowing. When Facebook draws the attention of Charles Schumer we're no longer talking about just the news.yc crowd. When Microsoft found themselves in the same situation in 1997 they went to Washington DC, told congress that consumers didn't really know what was good for them. When summoned by the US DOJ Bill Gates went back to Washington personally to tell the DOJ that they didn't know anything about computer software and were in no position to prosecute them. This level of arrogance takes a company out of the tech industry echo chamber and right into the nightly news.