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> We — the programmers, designers, product people — collectively decided that users don't deserve the right to code in everyday products. Users are too stupid.
by skulk 5y ago
> We — the programmers, designers, product people — collectively decided that users don't deserve the right to code in everyday products. Users are too stupid. They'd break stuff. Coding is too complicated for ordinary people. Besides, we can just do the coding...so why does it matter?
Is this really what happened? Did MySpace's model fall out of favor because "we" decided that FB's model was superior? Or was it just the free market reacting to FB's better capitalization strategy (social graph discovery, algorithmic content presentation).