One would think that Facebook will aggressively avoid finding themselves in a position where they have to spend $1b on a product they could build themselves. IOW, the next app that appears to be on a path to getting as much momemtum and traction that Instagram had will likely find FB competing much sooner. Who knows, maybe that's what was going on with Dalton...
Possibly. The difference with Instagram is that Instagram didn't have to rely on Facebook as a platform, where as it sounds like Dalton did. Hence the Dalton frustration; Facebook has total control, and Dalton has no recourse to do anything about it, yet they encouraged him to keep building.
IMO $1B for that kind of risk-free traction isn't significantly expensive to FB. Especially as FB desperately needed a volume of photos available outside the social graph in order to stay competitive.
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One would think that Facebook will aggressively avoid finding themselves in a position where they have to spend $1b on a product they could build themselves. IOW, the next app that appears to be on a path to getting as much momemtum and traction that Instagram had will likely find FB competing much sooner. Who knows, maybe that's what was going on with Dalton...
Possibly. The difference with Instagram is that Instagram didn't have to rely on Facebook as a platform, where as it sounds like Dalton did. Hence the Dalton frustration; Facebook has total control, and Dalton has no recourse to do anything about it, yet they encouraged him to keep building.
IMO $1B for that kind of risk-free traction isn't significantly expensive to FB. Especially as FB desperately needed a volume of photos available outside the social graph in order to stay competitive.