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Am I right in thinking that these are completely separate to the Instagram stories?
by oakesm9 10y ago
Am I right in thinking that these are completely separate to the Instagram stories?
- bhouston 10y agoThey are trying to kill Snapchat by coping it repeatedly in all their products. Pretty interesting strategy and I suspect it may work. Sort of feels like Google's desparate G+ attempt to clone Facebook. It does feel a bit hacked onto the main Facebook experience though.
- mattnewton 10y agoWhat makes you think it will work? G+ is like the poster child for fighting the wrong way, a technically more advanced product that lacked the user base, and thus the point, of Facebook. Isn't Facebook doing the same thing with Snapchat, where the different user base is the real draw, not the tech?
- yeukhon 10y agoG+ is a poster child, but G+ is a horrible product. It was an entirely a whole new application of its own, so comparing that to Stories is pretty awkward. The Stories is integrated within the main Facebook user experience. It's literally showing up as another feature on the main site/main app.
- thomastjeffery 10y ago> G+ is a horrible product. Specifically how? The only reason I don't use it is that Facebook has all of the users. G+ has circles, which I really wish Facebook had. AFAIK, G+ doesn't have a constant sidebar with targeted ads like Facebook does.
- L_Rahman 10y agoThe difference is that Facebook already has a captive audience and G+ never did.
- mattnewton 10y agoBut, as a sibling comment suggested, it has the wrong audience: your mother, your coworkers, and your ex.
- zepolen 10y agoYes, Google doesn't have an audience...
- EGreg 10y agoWhy do these corporations each want to kill each other as an end goal? Why can't they innovate in their own space and collaborate? I think it's because they are built on two different platforms that it would not make economic sense to interoperate. Compare that to open source.
- dude01 10y agoI think it's like a prisoner's dilemma -- if FB doesn't try to kill off SC, then SC will kill off FB. But it's like a one-off prisoner's dilemma, because this is two corporations that assume that both won't be around forever, so they don't care about building a nice long-term relationship for themselves. Honestly, I could see the same thing happening in open source, though you're right, it doesn't seem to very much at all.
- eric_h 10y agoThat does seem to be implied by the article.