>I don’t know if Apple has the DNA for web-scale consumer social software compared to Meta.
Yeah, they don’t. I’ve been using their cloud stuff since iTools and they’ve always been pure crap. Apple just doesn’t “get” the whole website thing for whatever reason lol
Apple doesn’t need to ‘get websites’ for this though? It seems like it can entirely bypass DNS and most of the other web paradigms that facebook et al have popularized.
Private sharing is about sending content to people A, B, and C (“push”). Think iMessage, WhatsApp, Snapchat.
Social networks are about people discovering your content (“pull”). Think Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, Threads.
The two differ in important ways: dynamics of how they work, how they grow, what consumers care about in a product, what success looks like, tech stack, etc.
I don't think that's what a social network is necessarily - many people use Facebook entirely as a "friends only" sharing tool, and indeed almost all Facebook activity appears to be between people who know each other in real life. There are social networks that are primarily between strangers (Twitter, TikTok, etc) but that's not a defining feature of all social networks.
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 32.2 ms ] threadNow that is a use of the term faceted not yet seen. Wow.
Yeah, they don’t. I’ve been using their cloud stuff since iTools and they’ve always been pure crap. Apple just doesn’t “get” the whole website thing for whatever reason lol
Dysfunctional orgs produce dysfunctional outputs.
Private sharing is about sending content to people A, B, and C (“push”). Think iMessage, WhatsApp, Snapchat.
Social networks are about people discovering your content (“pull”). Think Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, Threads.
The two differ in important ways: dynamics of how they work, how they grow, what consumers care about in a product, what success looks like, tech stack, etc.
The author is conflating the two.
Not being on iMessage for many Americans is MUCH stranger than not using Facebook.