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Snapchat's CEO On Facebook's Long History of Copying His Company's Products (theverge.com)
Earlier this week, Snap's CEO Evan Spiegel publicly addressed Facebook's long-standing practice of copying his company's products, joking that Facebook should model Snap's approach to collecting less information about its users. "We would really appreciate it if they copied our data protection practices also," Spiegel said on Tuesday night at the Code Conference in Southern California. The Verge reports: Interviewer Kara Swisher asked Spiegel how he felt about Facebook's decision to copy key Snapchat innovations including ephemeral 24-hour stories and augmented reality lenses. Spiegel first said that his wife, Miranda Kerr, cared more about it than he did. Snap collects less data on users than Facebook does, though it does still allow advertisers to target ads based on demographic criteria that the company gathers. It has never offered a full-featured API that allows users to give away their friends' information, as Facebook once did.
Spiegel went on to say that he looked at Facebook's copying as a designer. "If you design something that is so simple and so elegant, that the only thing other people can do is copy it exactly [...] that as a designer is really is the most fantastic thing in the world," Spiegel said.
Spiegel went on to say that he looked at Facebook's copying as a designer. "If you design something that is so simple and so elegant, that the only thing other people can do is copy it exactly [...] that as a designer is really is the most fantastic thing in the world," Spiegel said.
This story sounds like a dup - was this where the whiny CEO complained about what his wife did or didn't like?
Bitching about feature theft by a platform with the second worst UX on the internet is not helping Crapchat's cause.
We had freebie face replacement apps bundled with our webcams like 20 years ago, wtf. We could use them with Skype or anything else because they worked on the driver level.
By "earlier this week", do they mean Wednesday? https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
No, Evan, those aren't "products". Those are minor UI tweaks to an entirely unoriginal, meaningless application.
The idea that any of this is considered innovative is a red flag of how deeply rotten and incestuous Silicon Valley is. When this bubble pops it's gonna be glorious.
No matter how much they copy, they are still facebook. Right thinking people have better things to do with their internet time.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
..and it's not that hard to get said info.
snapchat OTOH.. the whole company was based on selling snake oil of sharing stuff you couldn't save.
really it was based on that one idea, which is a snakeoil idea. ironically a lot of more people fucked themselves up unknowingly with snapchat than facebook, because they bought into that idea.
got any idea how much snapchat non intended to share porn there is? if you can see it, you can save it. simple as that.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.