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Ummm, Facebook's wall is quite a bit less ominous than Apple's. You may want to return that irony to the store, they cheated you and watered it down.
by madair 17y ago
Ummm, Facebook's wall is quite a bit less ominous than Apple's. You may want to return that irony to the store, they cheated you and watered it down.
- naz 17y agoCollecting intimate personal details and selling it to advertisers is less ominous than screening apps to ensure quality?
- madair 17y agoI thought they shut down that program recently?
- kyro 17y agoYou're talking about Beacon, which would gather data about what you're doing on other sites.
- unalone 17y agoFrom a developer standpoint, immensely so.
- indranil 17y agohuh!? O_o
- unalone 17y agoWhat matters here isn't "Are Apple and Facebook soulless and oppressive corporations?" (I'd argue no, lots of people would argue yes; either way it's not important.) What matters is how each is treating its developers. Facebook is open to developers and their publications; Apple isn't.
- madair 17y agoFor that the key is the privacy controls. We can argue about whether Facebook's privacy controls are good enough, whether they are selling our data, and so on. But that's got nothing to do with the Apple walled-garden comparison. I can write a FB app and have it up in a jiffy, that's just not the case with Apple. And I will be so very very surprised if Facebook censors a dictionary app.
- zmimon 17y ago> I can write a FB app and have it up in a jiffy, that's just not the case with Apple If FB doesn't like your app they'll have it down in a jiffy too. It's not nearly so clear cut as you make out. Their review process is just reactive instead of front-loaded.
- evgen 17y agoThe walls are still there. Facebook is still a roach motel for data and now they are going to be spanking platform developers whose apps are proving to be detrimental to Facebook's reputation and user experience. Same tune, different band.
- madair 17y agoWhat is implied by a roach motel for data? I hate walled gardens. But I really don't think they are objectively the same tune different band. You're saying they will be spanking platform devs who's apps prove detrimental...well that's pretty different from Apple. Hugely different. Hmmm, hardly in the same class. [edited to move part to a different parent comment]
- ja30278 17y agoIt's a reference to the old roach motel slogan: "Roaches check in, but they can't check out". In this case, referring to the fact that Facebook doesn't exactly go out of their way to provide you with the ability to 'take your data and leave'. Can you get an easy dump of all of your comments? Your friends' contact info? Your photos?
- ivankirigin 17y agoAlmost everything in facebook is openly accessible via API if you've granted permissions to an applications to do so. We've seen services like Tweetdeck and Seesmic and Brizzly act like portals to the data. Things get complicated with friends' data of course. Facebook has a collection of your friends phone numbers, and data access permissions and storage rights get complicated.