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This article would be more believable if they removed the word "deep" from the title. A deep analysis would show that other than the Google platform integration
by teilo 15y ago
This article would be more believable if they removed the word "deep" from the title. A deep analysis would show that other than the Google platform integration, these so-called differentiators fall apart.
Hangouts is unique -- for now. I'm pretty sure Facebook is already working on something similar.
The only real differentiation I have seen is the UI. The Facebook UI is getting very hairy. It is hard to find things. You shouldn't have to Google (oh, the irony) to find out "how do I do X on Facebook?".
So Facebook's real vulnerability, as I see it, is platform creep. It's due for a major re-write, but of course they then risk alienating their user base at the worse possible time. Google's move is therefore quite strategic.
- rryan 15y agoI've heard others describe the difference as a UI issue and I can't disagree more. It takes an engineer to realize, but the dynamic real-time updating of Google+ is /not/ a UI issue. You can't just sprinkle some front-end magic on a system to make it work this way. It takes major backend work to allow that to happen. Minor point, but the photo quality of Picasa is truly making the experience for me. Facebook's photos are low-quality and built to scale massively, while Picasa has been built as a Flickr competitor. The quality difference and design tradeoffs really show. I'm a photography nerd though, so maybe this does not matter to others as much. Also, as many have said I think the major hook for Google+ is that notifications are integrated in every Google property.
- waqf 15y agoFor the benefit of those of us who aren't familiar with both platforms, can you explain what "dynamic real-time updating" features Google+ has and what Facebook does instead?