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The big miss for Facebook isn’t cloud computing platforms, but mobile platforms. Mark has admitted this himself when asked what his mistakes/regrets are. It was
by enos_feedler 7y ago
The big miss for Facebook isn’t cloud computing platforms, but mobile platforms. Mark has admitted this himself when asked what his mistakes/regrets are. It was easy to miss in the context of social’s massive growth. But the dust is settling and it is clear that mobile platforms hold tremendous power over consumere.
- kube-system 7y agoThey tried a little bit, didn't they? https://www.cnet.com/news/heres-why-the-facebook-phone-flopped/ https://www.cnet.com/news/heres-why-the-facebook-phone-flopp...
- scarface74 7y agoFacebook didn’t miss mobile. They completely repositioned themselves when it came to mobile and pivoted away from being an app platform. Mobile was the best thing that happen to them.
- saagarjha 7y agoIt was the best thing that happened to them, but also caused them to cede control to platform vendors.
- enos_feedler 7y agoI think you give Facebook too much credit for repositioning themselves. Facebook and the news feed was a natural product for mobile. There was no pivot at all. They merely saw where user attention was going and built for that surface. I would argue they got off track by building for mobile "web" and thinking native APIs weren't important. Then they course corrected. But I think the miss here is that social connectivity was a new thing happening to software and they could have made a strong play to influence the direction of the mobile OS. They don't have much leverage now.
- ahupp 7y agoFacebook did a huge company-wide refocus on mobile at a time when it was not at all clear smartphones were going to become the dominant platform. I really do give zuck et.al. a lot of credit for seeing that coming [source: I was an employee at the time]
- beardedman 7y agoReact Native?