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On the contrary. I think Facebook cares very much about developers. They do not want to give developers enough tools to create enduring products, because this w
by sprout 16y ago
On the contrary. I think Facebook cares very much about developers. They do not want to give developers enough tools to create enduring products, because this would kill their walled garden, in a variety of ways.
The biggest way is they don't want to make it easy for you to get your data out of Facebook. Any robust, well-documented API would have to enable that.
In some ways this is even a good thing. A small number of compromised accounts can give access to most of the data on Facebook.
- jonny_noog 16y agoNever attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by incompetence.
- sprout 16y agoI really don't believe that Facebook's developers are incompetent. And it's quite easy to neglect work when there's a business case for leaving that work undone.
- jonny_noog 16y agoI suspect that as with any large enough organisation there is a spectrum of competence across their workers, raging from high to low. I obviously have no proof that there isn't some big conspiracy afoot, but given the choice to bet on conspiracy or incompetence as the primary factor for the issues we're seeing, I know what I'd put my money on.