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Launching a simple storage and services product would be the opposite of productive. They would be wise to lean into their strengths and offer things others ar

• jacquesm 4y ago
  Never, ever host your service with a potential competitor.
  • basch 4y ago
    Like Netflix hosted on AWS? Who says they are even a "competitor"? This like anti-evil, spam, localization, and login services can apply to a ton of products that are not direct competitors to FB. Sure FB can and will clone just about anything, but you can say the same thing about Amazon and Google and Microsoft, at which point you shouldn't use any cloud services.
    • jacquesm 4y ago
      > at which point you shouldn't use any cloud services You may be on to something there. Cloud services exist first and foremost to further skew the playingfield in the direction of the larger parties because the economies of scale they create will allow them to compete with you in legal ways that you will find hard to match. That is the reason why these large companies are willing to rent out their data centers to you: you are essentially allowing them to sell you value added bits whilst reducing their own marginal costs in the process. Double win for them. The fact that they could do even worse doesn't matter much absent proof. But for Facebook I'll make an exception: that company is rotten to the core in a way that not much else is and I highly doubt that there is a barrier low enough that they wouldn't crawl under it.