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Here's my speculation: Facebook bought Parse to attempt to own mobile usage data. Draw parallels with what Google did when they bought Urchin to form Google A

by fizx 14y ago

Here's my speculation: Facebook bought Parse to attempt to own mobile usage data. Draw parallels with what Google did when they bought Urchin to form Google Analytics. I don't think Facebook cares about creating developer experiences. I think they care about having tracking hooks into mobile applications.

csmajorfive 14y ago
That's incorrect.
- WayneDB 14y ago
  Why? Makes sense to me. Why else would Facebook want to "power my app" with Parse? Haven't they always only offered developer services for their own platform and not the wider web?
  - mhartl 14y ago
    The person who wrote "That's incorrect" is a Parse founder (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=csmajorfive https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=csmajorfive).
    - pifflesnort 14y ago
      Does that make his statement more or less likely to be accurate?
      - donohoe 14y ago
        More likely to be accurate. If the original statement had a nugget of truth it would be easiest to just ignore it and not answer. Instead, they are going on the record and saying its not true.
        pifflesnort 14y ago
        > Instead, they are going on the record and saying its not true. It's not like "going on record" means anything; truth is an oddly malleable thing. What's true today might not be tomorrow, what is said to be true may only be what the speaker needs you to believe is true, or it may be the speaker only believes it to be true. The best predictor of what's to come is past experience and objective observation, not the words of people who have both incentive and ego wrapped up in propagating a particular narrative. [edit] From another comment, here's an e-mail from the Parse team, from 1/15/2013 -- only 3 months ago: "Being acquired isn't part of our game plan for now. We want to build a viable business that people can use and enjoy. We have 50k apps built on our infrastructure and a huge customer base that is growing rapidly. Everyday we have more and more Basic, Pro, and Enterprise users paying us for our awesome services." https://gist.github.com/brianpattison/5463282 https://gist.github.com/brianpattison/5463282 When you're dealing with venture capitalists, the truth is whatever they need the audience to believe.
chrisblizzard 14y ago
Nope.

by fizx 14y ago

csmajorfive 14y ago

That's incorrect.

WayneDB 14y ago
Why? Makes sense to me. Why else would Facebook want to "power my app" with Parse? Haven't they always only offered developer services for their own platform and not the wider web?
- mhartl 14y ago
  The person who wrote "That's incorrect" is a Parse founder (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=csmajorfive https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=csmajorfive).
  - pifflesnort 14y ago
    Does that make his statement more or less likely to be accurate?
    - donohoe 14y ago
      More likely to be accurate. If the original statement had a nugget of truth it would be easiest to just ignore it and not answer. Instead, they are going on the record and saying its not true.
      - pifflesnort 14y ago
        > Instead, they are going on the record and saying its not true. It's not like "going on record" means anything; truth is an oddly malleable thing. What's true today might not be tomorrow, what is said to be true may only be what the speaker needs you to believe is true, or it may be the speaker only believes it to be true. The best predictor of what's to come is past experience and objective observation, not the words of people who have both incentive and ego wrapped up in propagating a particular narrative. [edit] From another comment, here's an e-mail from the Parse team, from 1/15/2013 -- only 3 months ago: "Being acquired isn't part of our game plan for now. We want to build a viable business that people can use and enjoy. We have 50k apps built on our infrastructure and a huge customer base that is growing rapidly. Everyday we have more and more Basic, Pro, and Enterprise users paying us for our awesome services." https://gist.github.com/brianpattison/5463282 https://gist.github.com/brianpattison/5463282 When you're dealing with venture capitalists, the truth is whatever they need the audience to believe.

chrisblizzard 14y ago

Nope.