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Am I wrong in being suspicious this is a plan for economic colonialism by Facebook Personally, my brain went in the direction of "is Facebook taking the Google
by dvtrn 8y ago
Am I wrong in being suspicious this is a plan for economic colonialism by Facebook
Personally, my brain went in the direction of "is Facebook taking the Google approach to developing products?" i.e. they have a huge engineering team that needs to work on something, so you end up with a lot of products coming out of their dev organization, thrown at a wall, some stick and become popular in their own right (Messenger), some don't and die, and some are extensions of acquisitions (instagram).
Pure speculation and supposition, but that's the sensation I get, specifically reading this headline. shrug
- akhilcacharya 8y ago“Engineer driven product development”?
- dvtrn 8y agoYeah something like that. I'm sure lots of teams do it, seems like a worthy practice to help build a culture of continuous learning when you're at the scale that you can just build "extracurricular"[1] features on your platform, provided you have product managers who can balance that with meeting core product objectives. [1] there may be a better phrase for this which eludes me right now