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AllFacebook: Facebook Signals Addition of Killer Feature

  • Justin Thorp · 2 years ago
    "If the latter, this would be a direct strike against Slide, in turn creating a statement for developers: don’t develop a utility application that becomes enormously popular. If you do, Facebook will take it and add it to their main features."

    I think this just another reason why ultimately Facebook's closed eco-system won't work. Facebook's ability to quickly make an app like yours and steal your thunder is too much of a disincentive to start developing on their platform.

    It causes me to have that much more respect for Twitter, which is essentially just like Facebook Statuses, but is seeing great success independent of Facebook.