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>I'm sorry but if your product can be easily copied by Facebook, you don't really have a product. Most things can be easily copied if you throw enough money an
by xenihn 9y ago
>I'm sorry but if your product can be easily copied by Facebook, you don't really have a product.
Most things can be easily copied if you throw enough money and developer hours at it
- bhouston 9y ago> Most things can be easily copied if you throw enough money and developer hours at it I would argue everything can be copied from a technical standpoint (excluding patent issues.) Marketing and user adoption may or may not be successfully copied though.
- adrianlmm 9y agoFor a great example of this, G+, millions wasted in a copy of Facebook that never worked.
- LoSboccacc 9y agoThe google failure was aiming at the current facebook user that were committed instead of the 13+ demographic entering the social net without anchors. That and hangout mobile sucked balls at the beginning and for quite a long time after
- quadrangle 9y agoFWIW, they did pose a competitive threat to Facebook, forcing FB to add features like choosing which groups of "friends" to show a particular post and letting people see public posts of people who aren't bidirectionally connected. If Facebook had refused to adapt at all, G+ might have grown more significant.
- jacobush 9y agoSome things will not be copied. FB will never implement a decentralised system where they can not leach on user data.