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problem is that facebook doesn't really have too much of an incentive to care about these developers. they are not like apple, whose products include third par
by andylei 15y ago
problem is that facebook doesn't really have too much of an incentive to care about these developers. they are not like apple, whose products include third party apps as part of the core value proposition. when steve jobs sells you an iphone, one big reason you buy it is because it has thousands of great apps. people don't sign up for facebook because of farmville, farmville uses facebook because people have already signed up for facebook.
thus, when apple's developers get screwed and there's no app ecosystem, there is the potential for decreased sales. when facebook apps disappear, i doubt there are a lot of people leaving facebook.
- ignifero 15y agoThey have an incentive: FB credits generates significant revenue to them already, plus games are a contributing factor to user retention. It may become more significant to user retention by filling the void now that social activity has peaked and everyone has caught up with their highschool friends.
- robryan 15y agoI think they would be missing out on a huge opportunity in not creating the best app ecosystem possible. Sure there are huge network effects now but eventually something will popup as a viable alternative with a much better app system which will drain a large amount of developers that otherwise would have been working on the Facebook platform.