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> It was utter insanity, and of course LinkedIn and Facebook both appeared as if they were the benchmarks we should follow ("See, they abandoned HTML! So shoul
by akalia 14y ago
> It was utter insanity, and of course LinkedIn and Facebook both appeared as if they were the benchmarks we should follow ("See, they abandoned HTML! So should we").
This story amused me to no end. About 18 months ago, I worked on a team that made the (not unanimous) decision to build a hybrid app, and those who pushed for that technology pointed to LinkedIn and Facebook as the benchmark we should follow ("See, they use web code in an app! So should we!")
It's easy to say this with hindsight, but we really should have just picked the best technology for our team and product, instead of assuming that larger companies knew something special or magic that we didn't.
- corresation 14y agoIndeed, that was an earlier iteration of the internal argument (the appeal to authority of Facebook and LinkedIn and their well known embracing of HTML). What you say is absolutely true, and the truth is that these shops are staffed with often pretty standard technology guys, but because they're big everything they say and do gets more technically credibility than it perhaps should. Recall when the startup world was rushing to listen to Digg's profound statements on databases (most of which we quickly debunked)