Σε μια άνευ προηγουμένου απόφαση που άφησε άναυδους τους τεχνικούς παρατηρητές, το Facebook αποφάσισε να δημιουργήσει μια κοινή πλατφόρμα για τις τρεις βασικές εφαρμογές του: το Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Never in the history of the company have billions of dollars been spent on the acquisition of other companies which are then consolidated under the same framework…
Companies usually continue to operate their subsidiaries as separate entities.
The unification command naturally comes from above, by Zuckerberg himself, who according to New York Times, έχει δώσει περιθώριο στους προγραμματιστές να ολοκληρώσουν το project μέσα σε ένα χρόνο.
Here we should mention that we did not have any clues about the decision, except maybe from the departure of its founders Instagram and Whatsapp from Facebook in recent months.
So the decision was a shock for those who believed Facebook's promise that WhatsApp and Instagram will act independently after their takeover.
However, there will be several serious implications for the decision to integrate Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp with Facebook. Greek Media presents the event as a pioneering one that may be true, but no one is considering what will actually happen in the background.
When the 3 services are integrated into a single software platform, it is inevitable that Facebook will link users' accounts through their unique identifiers, removing to some extent the pseudo-anonymity which some Instagrammers or WhatsApp app users think they have.
Facebook is already a huge data bank, combining the three applications will give the company greater access to data of users from her daily life, which she will use to find new ways to earn more.
What will happen to her end-to-end encryption which the WhatsApp platform uses when joining the three applications (Instagram is not a messaging service).
The integration of Facebook applications will again trigger discussions with the Authorities, and we should not be surprised to find that the new code includes a backdoor for the FBI.
Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata analysis of 3 key platforms (Messenger, Whatsapp & Instagram). They will make money by tracking your relationships and social groups. They will make that information easily accessible to law enforcement.
- Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) January 25, 2019
According to the NYT publication, there are some internal concerns (from the company's employees) about the project. Most are doubts as to the benefit of linking the three services, because it is not expected to bring many new users.
This shows that Facebook employees do not really understand how the company earns the money it uses to pay their wages.
Tip: A very good source of cash is to gather as much data as possible from users and sell them to advertisers.
Of course consolidation may create more problems: the history of computing is littered with ill-fated attempts to force different productof working under the same platform.
But the benefits for Facebook are very important. One of these is that it will get rid of too many (and expensive) software engineers today needed to support three different products. Yes we are talking about layoffs, and he will do it once he has the opportunity.
Only with the departure of the founders of WhatsApp and Instagram, the company has earned a fortune with redeeming the shares.
Probably we should all understand (those who haven't) that Facebook is not a simple social network that helps us find our friends but an unscrupulous, for-profit company that wants our data.
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