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Why Facebook's Parse shutdown is good news

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14 pointsryderj10 comments

I'm having a hard time understanding where in this article it actually states why the shutdown is "good news". Rather, it seems to have focused more on why it happened and where Facebook is headed.

IMHO, whenever a service shuts down, no matter if it's helping a million users or just one, it's usually not good news for those using it. Google Reader being a great example of that.

The author works for layer. They describe themselves as: "A complete toolkit, from UI to infrastructure, that quickly enables rich, engaging messaging experiences in every app." He might be slightly biased towards messaging.

Agreed.

I took it as good news more for the Facebook investor. The piece didn't convince me of that, but I think that's what it was going for.

-Apps, mega niches, are the future! (Yeap)

-Don't let any one app to be the sole place a user gets his content (I'm with you here as I didn't create Facebook)

-Parse is no more (I read that somewhere too)

-Now you can focus on leveraging an existing platform to bring engaging content to your users. (What if I want to service a mega niche that doesn't exist or generally wish to be foolish enough to believe I can compete with my idea? Wouldn't it be convenient to leverage a Backend as a service like parse? Shame they shutdown)

Huh? Facebook is hardly the dominant messaging platform, and if they shut down parse why would that lend any credibility to their messaging app platform?

You living under a rock?

Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp (a facebook company) and Instagram (a facebook company) make Facebook the dominant messaging platform with billion+ MAU.

Heck FB Messenger and WhatsApp are the #1 and #2 services and Facebook controls 3 of the top 6 by monthly actives...

> You living under a rock?

Please don't be uncivil in Hacker News comments. This comment would be fine without that first sentence.

I always enjoy the irony of a comment like yours which criticizes my comment but itself adds no value to the conversation and instead is "meta-whining". Unlike my original comment, yours has added literally nothing to this thread, and now that I've replied to you, you've catalyzed more off-topic meta-nonsense. Thanks!

No, it makes Facebook the dominant messaging company. You can't call three completely unconnected apps a platform.

Pretty much different UIs for the same graph at this point, surely?

The actual Facebook platform isn't the bunch of notifications end users are variously served, pushed and aggregated through different clients - the FB platform is their graph, and that thing is pretty impressive.

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