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Of course, because money is the only criteria that is important to any business. There couldn't possibly be anything else, like a sense of mission or purpose, t
by swombat 13y ago
Of course, because money is the only criteria that is important to any business. There couldn't possibly be anything else, like a sense of mission or purpose, that could inform decisions.
- kordless 13y agoCognitive dissonance at its finest, folks.
- res0nat0r 13y agoHard to have a sense of mission or purpose when your company goes out of business and you can't pay the bills.
- mathattack 13y agoOnce you take outside money, you have to give up the sense of purpose if it conflicts with collecting money. This is more an issue of optimization versus long term vision. Some firms can act like Apple, ignore feedback, and invent the future. That's very rare. The rest must react to feedback.
- hpriebe 13y agoThis is interesting in respect to @harrf's comment above. He says, "Given an existing user base, on average 30% will hate any given change to their user experience, independent of whether the that experience is actually worse or better." I wonder how @harrf's number would play out over time as users adjust, get used to, and accept changes the way many Apple users do. I'm not convinced that designers always know what's best for users, but I do think it sometimes takes a little while for users to catch on to the long-term benefits designers are designing for.
- snowwrestler 13y agoFacebook was very carefully structured so that investors cannot oust Zuckerberg.
- mathattack 13y agoYes. Google too. That's very rare though. Even still, you have to expect those investors to demand attention to the current value of their investment.
- wrongc0ntinent 13y agoThere is only one core product that Facebook has. It's not a platform for anything other than that. Any new features must pass that test, and the implementation of this one didn't.