Same with WWDC, I/O, or Build. Big tech's vertical integration always hits 3rd parties.
F8 is like I/O, a way for corporate advertise.
Re:Facebook is launching a dating feature
by rusty_pete on Thursday May 03, 2018 @01:34AM
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Agree completely. F8 is all smoke and mirrors. I got fooled last year when they announced Camera AR Studio. Was all excited but never granted access or 'accepted' despite having 8 years development experience in agencies. Surely their target market if there was one.
The recent breaking instagram API update without warning was a big enough FU to developers to confirm this.
When I wear my tinfoil hat it becomes clear that Cambridge Analytica was a manufactured crisis to give Facebook the public permission and mission to purge developers off its platform, which has been its plan for a while now.
Re:Facebook is launching a dating feature
by KhanMahGretsch on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @06:30PM
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Never let a crisis go to waste.
Re:Facebook is launching a dating feature
by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @10:37PM
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I mostly doubt Facebook would intentionally put itself through this much drama just to dump developers: The damage they took from CA was worse than they'd get for announcing they hated developers and didn't want to deal with them anymore.
That being said, it's hard to criticize them for internalizing something like this given that letting external services build on them is what landed them in this mess in the first place.
I’m curious what the point of F8 actually is at this stage. The platform has become so restricted that social apps can’t be built anymore. Facebook should just acknowledge that outside developers have outlived their usefulness now that they have helped the service attract 2 billion users, and scrap the conference.