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Like Firefox did, just create an open source social experience and we will move our friends and family to a more open and secure place. Never underestimate an

• unalone 18y ago
  TweedHeads, it's really cute that you think that's why people went to Firefox, the whole open thing, but the average user doesn't know what plugins are. The big switch to FF came when it had tabs and IE 6 didn't. That's when I changed. It also rendered pages more accurately and loaded faster than IE 6. Nobody cares that it was open, and chances are people didn't care that it was secure. The idea of security is that you don't actively notice it. Facebook is secure already, and nobody cares that it's closed. If it was a shitty site that was also closed, then maybe an "open social experience" would come in handy, but Facebook also happens to be the best-designed popular site that's ever been made, it runs oily-smooth, and it has five hundred bazillion users. Never underestimate an angry customer... Like the 10 million angry customers that protested when Facebook redesigned and lost its little guy logo? Or that protested that you can't change Facebook to other colors? Because I have friends that joined those groups, and they're still on Facebook. "Mildly irritated" customers can be underestimated, for the most part. They don't do anything.
  • TweedHeads 18y ago
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=485460 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=485460 Never underestimate an angry customer...