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Do you really think Facebook would stop innovating if it weren't for the threat of Google behind its back? Perhaps the timing is influenced by G+, but the actua
by orijing 15y ago
Do you really think Facebook would stop innovating if it weren't for the threat of Google behind its back? Perhaps the timing is influenced by G+, but the actual introduction of those products are just evolutionary steps in Facebook's mission to make the world more connected.
It hires so many people (including hundreds of interns) because it wants to build a platform and a tool for people to use to keep in touch with each other. I don't think Facebook is playing from the same opening book as Microsoft.
IE is a different story because it is not a core product of Microsoft. Facebook is the core of Facebook (obviously), so it cannot just let the product atrophy like MS let IE.
- rxin 15y agoFacebook might not stop innovating, but the pace of innovation will be slower. Competition fosters innovation. This is really simple business.
- dannyr 15y agoI never said Facebook would stop innovating but it wouldn't be as fast. Facebook is stepping up it's game. Same can be said with Apple. IPhone would keep improving with or without Android. But I feel like Apple is being more agressive about it with Android around.
- pkulak 15y agoBesides, how would Apple know how to make a notification system without Android?
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoWhat has Facebook done that can be described as 'innovative' since the wall? Their only 2 decent products since then have been Connect and Like, neither of which were innovative (though they were good enough implementations to reach ubiquity). And they've released many products that are just down-right poor; Places is me-too and no one uses it, Messaging is just a mess, Groups is buried and unuseable... Facebook is riding off the network effect. It makes me wonder what exactly is going on there, as they have some of the best engineers in the world; why are they not putting out stellar product after stellar product? They've taken care of scaling already; what are these geniuses doing?
- whatusername 15y agoPhotos. With good tagging. And now facial recognition.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoWhen were these things implemented?
- robert_nsu 15y agoWeren't Facebook engineers behind the Cassandra project and HipHop? Oh, and they have a list of projects their devs contribute to here: https://developers.facebook.com/opensource/ https://developers.facebook.com/opensource/
- bergie 15y agoEven though their open source contributions are nice, they are still just an implementation detail that can't really be counted as product innovation.
- basugasubaku 15y agoI think you are confusing the wall with the news feed. The original wall was a single wiki on your profile (ca 2004?), later replaced with public messages on your profile. The news feed is the updates you see when you login.