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So this was an application used by extremely non-technical customers (i.e. marketers) spending money on behalf of many, many brands. Relying on their IT to do

So this was an application used by extremely non-technical customers (i.e. marketers) spending money on behalf of many, many brands. Relying on their IT to do this just wouldn't have worked and was definitely not scalable. For context, if Power Editor disappeared along with its revenue, Facebook would have needed to report this to the market.

yyyk 6y ago
The idea that businesses would forego Facebook because some non-techies find the most powerful ad manager to be difficult to run completely mistakes where the focal point is. Brands need FB more than the other way around. If Chrome were to remove WebSQL, bosses would have told people to 'run this or else', and you'd have found that every process was scalable with enough human labour. There were multiple workarounds present. Probably they'd have bought a mac, at worst they'd just have used a 3rd party app until FB fixed this, which wouldn't have taken long with FB's resources. Hardly fatal for anyone.