Companies dream of creating just one of these.
Nowhere did you say that Facebook’s innovations have to be the reason the end user uses the product, or even used by the end user at all. All you said is that they have never innovated. That is the bar. And it is clearly extremely low as Facebook has done lots of innovating with products used by developers all the time.
I guess you could say that fb created some innovations, mostly in their labs, but they are not in the business of innovation
> but they are not in the business of innovation
Who in this thread claimed they are in the business of innovation or that something is innovative only if it affects their direct customers? This entire response is a strawman, plain and simple.
Once again, your clearly defined bar is, and I quote:
> When did facebook innovate?
Stick to the bar you set and be humble when it’s clearly proven to be a dismally low bar.
As much as we try to sugarcoat it, facebook is not known as a mobileUI or languageML company
The fact that you’re continuing to double down is astounding.
Or people calling Oculus and FBAI etc as facebook innovations. They are acquisitions of existing technologies, paying the way to innovator status
But, referring back to all my previous posts, you set them at “when did Facebook innovate”.
Maybe next time you comment, you actually read what is being criticized and stick to that, rather than this strawman you keep putting up.
Even outside of AI with PyTorch, Facebook invented React and has been pervasively used by hundreds of millions of developers and billions on the web.
If neither of those are examples of Facebook's innovations on both the web and AI, then I don't know what is.
any company with tons of money is going to build some stuff thats innovative by virtue of hiring people completely irrelevant to its core product. FB is a social networking and ads company and it was not particularly innovative at that. It was not a web development house or an AI powerhouse, and it's still not (that's not where it makes its billions).
So by your own goalposts, they DID release innovations then?
> FB is a social networking and ads company and it was not particularly innovative at that.
I wonder what those psychologists and engineers who worked on the Like button with the team who built the AI that is used from that, to Ads and the social graph would say about the billions of dollars and stock value that it has made for Facebook.
Again, you set those exceeding low goalposts for your point. If not even that is an example of an innovation relevant to Facebook's business and made it billions of dollars, then perhaps nothing is.