Business insider is telling us something interesting about Facebook. Facebook's CTO, Bret Taylor, says that Facebook views users as its top priority, but places developers and advertisers on equal ground right behind them. This policy is a lesson learned from Microsoft, who knew how to "build an extremely good developer relations team, and really focused on developers as one of their core constituents."
Microsoft was able to convince third-party developers to create applications for their platform, and gained a huge presence among developers, which lasts till present day, as more than 6 million developers use the company's Visual Studio platform to build applications.
Business insider isn't telling us all this about Microsoft just as an old veterans war story. Their claim is that Facebook has more in mind than just earning money by advertising. They believe Facebook wants to "become the default platform for social networking across Web sites, third-party apps, mobile platforms, and anywhere else that people want to use the Internet to interact with friends".
The only problem here is that if there is one lesson learned from Microsoft's past, is the failure of a single player to lead both as an infrastructure player and a content player for a length of time.
I believe that if Business insider's analysis is true, Facebook will find out, several years ahead, that they will have to choose who they wish to be. Two sides within will fight for dominance, and at lease historically, no organization has been able to win external competition in both fields at the same time.
Microsoft was able to convince third-party developers to create applications for their platform, and gained a huge presence among developers, which lasts till present day, as more than 6 million developers use the company's Visual Studio platform to build applications.
Business insider isn't telling us all this about Microsoft just as an old veterans war story. Their claim is that Facebook has more in mind than just earning money by advertising. They believe Facebook wants to "become the default platform for social networking across Web sites, third-party apps, mobile platforms, and anywhere else that people want to use the Internet to interact with friends".
The only problem here is that if there is one lesson learned from Microsoft's past, is the failure of a single player to lead both as an infrastructure player and a content player for a length of time.
I believe that if Business insider's analysis is true, Facebook will find out, several years ahead, that they will have to choose who they wish to be. Two sides within will fight for dominance, and at lease historically, no organization has been able to win external competition in both fields at the same time.
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