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I commented after the IOS14 stuff that FB revenue would obviously go up in Q3 as it has every quarter for years, to some incredulity on HN https://news.ycombina

by cm2012 5y ago

I commented after the IOS14 stuff that FB revenue would obviously go up in Q3 as it has every quarter for years, to some incredulity on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27845536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27845536. As always, FB keeps on trucking.

ksec 5y ago
And I remember that :) So thank you for the quality comments. Especially from people working in the ads industry. Which often get attacked on HN just due to its nature.
bamboozled 5y ago
Is this because people still use Instagram and not "Facebook"?
- pavlov 5y ago
  Literally billions of people use Facebook. It’s amazing how supposedly rational people on HN are perfectly willing to extrapolate from their own highly biased sample just because they don’t like company X. (See also “nobody uses Windows”, “nobody in America has an Android phone”, etc.)
  - slownews45 5y ago
    Or iphone/apple have "sealed their fate" by not doing something like the headphone jack or a replaceable battery or whatever.
    - fzil 5y ago
      comments like that always remind of that rsync guy's comment on dropbox's launch on HN. I wonder how this weird blindspot develops in people.
      - slownews45 5y ago
        right - and it assumes that a company like apple has given no thought to what might sell in the market when they come out with things like the "wildly overpriced" airpods. Yes, when they came out, they cost a LOT more than the competitors (I used Jabra). But wow, did they WORK well. It was no comparison really and was a lot of little things (just fewer bugs I think rather than features, they ALWAYS paired with my phone, pretty quickly, and had good battery life). For a lot of consumers, they don't care about features, they just trust apple more than they would for example govt run email or govt made phones.
  - bamboozled 5y ago
    A lot of people use Instagram, it’s the same company, what’s your point ?
anonu 5y ago
FB is a unique ad platform. No other platform can more accurately target individuals. As long as this is the case it will keep on trucking
- dekhn 5y ago
  I find this so interesting because the ads I get on facebook are completely useless, and I've gone out of my way to edit preferences. It shows me ads for newspapers I already subscribe to, underwear for a gender I don't belong to, and electric bikes (I drive). I rarely, if ever, see an ad for something where I think "oh, huh, I want to buy that".
  - tluyben2 5y ago
    Exactly I do not understand how the ads I get are so totally useless if they are so good for others... They literally never give me anything I want, need or even vaguely find interesting. It looks untargetted, while Google is often spot on.
aresant 5y ago
"would bet $10k on that" Shoulda bet $10m on that! PS - Always looking for insightful people w/experience in the FB platform for a variety of portfolio cos - are you anon here or some way to get in touch?
- cm2012 5y ago
  Hit me at hnthrowaway260 at gmail

by cm2012 5y ago

ksec 5y ago

And I remember that :) So thank you for the quality comments. Especially from people working in the ads industry. Which often get attacked on HN just due to its nature.

bamboozled 5y ago

Is this because people still use Instagram and not "Facebook"?

pavlov 5y ago
Literally billions of people use Facebook. It’s amazing how supposedly rational people on HN are perfectly willing to extrapolate from their own highly biased sample just because they don’t like company X. (See also “nobody uses Windows”, “nobody in America has an Android phone”, etc.)
- slownews45 5y ago
  Or iphone/apple have "sealed their fate" by not doing something like the headphone jack or a replaceable battery or whatever.
  - fzil 5y ago
    comments like that always remind of that rsync guy's comment on dropbox's launch on HN. I wonder how this weird blindspot develops in people.
    - slownews45 5y ago
      right - and it assumes that a company like apple has given no thought to what might sell in the market when they come out with things like the "wildly overpriced" airpods. Yes, when they came out, they cost a LOT more than the competitors (I used Jabra). But wow, did they WORK well. It was no comparison really and was a lot of little things (just fewer bugs I think rather than features, they ALWAYS paired with my phone, pretty quickly, and had good battery life). For a lot of consumers, they don't care about features, they just trust apple more than they would for example govt run email or govt made phones.
- bamboozled 5y ago
  A lot of people use Instagram, it’s the same company, what’s your point ?

anonu 5y ago

FB is a unique ad platform. No other platform can more accurately target individuals. As long as this is the case it will keep on trucking

dekhn 5y ago
I find this so interesting because the ads I get on facebook are completely useless, and I've gone out of my way to edit preferences. It shows me ads for newspapers I already subscribe to, underwear for a gender I don't belong to, and electric bikes (I drive). I rarely, if ever, see an ad for something where I think "oh, huh, I want to buy that".
- tluyben2 5y ago
  Exactly I do not understand how the ads I get are so totally useless if they are so good for others... They literally never give me anything I want, need or even vaguely find interesting. It looks untargetted, while Google is often spot on.

aresant 5y ago

"would bet $10k on that" Shoulda bet $10m on that! PS - Always looking for insightful people w/experience in the FB platform for a variety of portfolio cos - are you anon here or some way to get in touch?

cm2012 5y ago
Hit me at hnthrowaway260 at gmail