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Snapchat CEO Says Facebook Copied Its Features, But Not Its Values (axios.com)
Snapchat's CEO, Evan Spiegel, told an industry crowd that he doesn't obsess over Facebook's habit of adapting his social network's ideas. From a report: "I think it bothers my wife more than it bothers me," Spiegel said at the Code Conference Tuesday evening. "Fundamentally, it is important to understand that Snapchat is not just a bunch of features." [...] Referencing Snapchat's most famous feature -- posts vanish after 24 hours -- Spiegel quipped, "Maybe Facebook should copy Snapchat's data retention policies."
Facebook is older than Snapchat.
yeah, shuuure they do...
Nuke em all.
Yes, advertising to 8-12 yr olds getting them to buy games and energy drinks and eat tide pods is totally moral. Love your business model Evan, so much better.
Snap hat's stock won't be worth much very very soon.
I'd be more worried about the Spectacles fiasco and the fact that you are doubling down on failure by trying to resurrect them.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Didnâ(TM)t they get an offer for like $30 billion from Google a couple of years back? Something tells me they will severely regret turning that down. Donâ(TM)t care how much you believe in your âoevisionâ, thatâ(TM)s enough to make you set for life for generations to come, possibly âoeforeverâ.
Did you know that this guy is married to Miranda Kerr?
Does he not realize that her preferred platform is Instagram? https://www.instagram.com/mirandakerr/
I don;t think she's as upset as he might think.
Facebook did copy Snapchat's values - to the same place they store all of Facebook's values:
It might be funny to some - but as we see with ROSEANNE and TRUMP we still need a "conversation" about this stuff. The First Amendment needs to be changed and more serious consequences need to happen for this vile hate speech. There also needs to be international laws to catch these people in all jurisdictions.
Perhaps you could elaborate a bit more as to how we'll be ass-raping Free Speech in order to get to the end result you desire. Because it's somehow now magically worth the effort in 2018 to dismantle that Constitutional Right altogether. You know, for the children. Or some shit.
Oh, and for clarity, this bullshit posted here isn't hate speech. It's fucking SPAM at best. It doesn't actually harm anyone unless you allow it. "Sticks and stones" ring a bell for you at all, or do you intend to continue to cry victim until you no longer have the Right to do so?
>> CEO: "My wife is...upset..."
Board and Shareholders: "Then go home and play with your kids. Where's our money?"
What next, they should copy Snapchat's poor income and tiny net worth while they are at it?
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sigh. please see Joseph Goebbels.
if you have to google it, double sigh.
he showed us the power of propaganda, or "spam" as you call it.
Well, I think the first step to stopping hate speech is easy, stopping Free speech. Seems like efforts are well in motion already!
Don't you dare kneel for that national anthem, citizen, or the thought police will get you!
That would only make sense if something ever visibly changed on Facebook.
Facebook (the company) has visibly copied several features from the Snapchat (app) into their own collection of apps :
- Instastories (ephemeral "top posts" by users) is basically on of the main features lifted from Snapchat.
- Status posts in WhatsApp is yet another attempt at the same features in yet another Facebook-owned app.
- Instagram also cloned nearly identically lots of post-processing that Snapchat. Instead of sticking to the "color filiter to copy the crappy quality of old photo gears used by hipsters" that initially started Instagram, there are now emoji stickers, effects, etc.
Basically Mark Zuckerberg knows that nothing is eternal. He has seen how MySpace eventually went out of fashion and how the generation after that went to Facebook. He knows that Facebook won't be eternal neither, and that eventually people will move to something else, too : Most of its userbase has now become moms and dads, and their kids aren't hanging in the some online places.
Mark has thus been fervently buying all the things showing chances of being "the next big thing". As WhatsApp and Intagram started to become popular among milenials, they where acquired by Facebook.
It turned to be a wise strategy : they are now major social networks.
But then came Snapchat - the thing that is currently popular with kids.
Except that this time round, despite all his offers and attempts, the Zuck couldn't buy them.
So, cloning the most popular feature from Snapchat into the apps that Facebook owns has been the alternative strategy to retain user base as much as possible. /. geek enough to know that nothing is really ever gone online) and the crazy amount of real-time video manipulation filters, stickers, etc.
Snapchat became popular with kids for two reasons : the perceived ephemeral messages (there is no "history", once it's gone, it's supposed to be definitely gone. And not everyone is a
Facebook cloned as much of it as possible.
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