| It takes tens of thousands of engineers at FAANGs to... do webmail... doing IM takes one FAANG... 30 people?... to replicate what non-technical local events communities did in posting shared calendars on PHP-driven solutions two+ decades ago... to do what Wordpress does but costing much more per user than everyone in the world having their own Wordpress install... to create a mobile OS while a basic working Ubuntu version on vastly diverse and undocumented hardware seems to be done by three people and a shoe... to do advertising analytics... to create advertising platforms... to make users a product... to discontinue products if they don't fit into productifying the user enough... to make itself an indispensable solution by extinguishing anything not in its network of users as products scale... ...more? If there's anything FAANGs do, that's actually good, it's employing people to make their advertising social environments online safe. But they seem to too often shirk that. And that's not a computer-technical job no matter how someone might want to pretend they can create a Bayes filter for it. |