What is your intake on Facebook copying other apps' features left and right?

1 points by mayermail1977 ↗ HN
Does it send a wrong message about innovation or it is all good as everybody does it?

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I think often there is more drama about it than necessary.

You can't have 100% innovation all the time. Sometimes you have to refine an idea for a while. Friendster, MySpace, etc existed before Facebook. Heck, you maybe even could make the case that the Well belongs in that list.

Additionally, I hear a lot of Internet gasps at things like Facebook's stories implementation, but far less about, say, Snow which as far as I know is entirely a copy of Snapchat. So the drama seems selective in the sense that folks try to make rivalries out of it to pump up the drama.

Good comment. Facebook also copied snapcaht entirely I believe it was called slingshot.