Re:Scott Rafer on Dalton's letter: "Learning the wrong lesson"
by klawed on Friday August 03, 2012 @07:59PM
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One would think that Facebook will aggressively avoid finding themselves in a position where they have to spend $1b on a product they could build themselves. IOW, the next app that appears to be on a path to getting as much momemtum and traction that Instagram had will likely find FB competing much sooner. Who knows, maybe that's what was going on with Dalton...
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Re:Scott Rafer on Dalton's letter: "Learning the wrong lesson"
by austenallred on Friday August 03, 2012 @08:23PM
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Possibly. The difference with Instagram is that Instagram didn't have to rely on Facebook as a platform, where as it sounds like Dalton did. Hence the Dalton frustration; Facebook has total control, and Dalton has no recourse to do anything about it, yet they encouraged him to keep building.
Re:Scott Rafer on Dalton's letter: "Learning the wrong lesson"
by scottrafer on Friday August 03, 2012 @08:46PM
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IMO $1B for that kind of risk-free traction isn't significantly expensive to FB. Especially as FB desperately needed a volume of photos available outside the social graph in order to stay competitive.