Hacker News: product50

New comment by product50 in "Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad"

product50 — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:07:01 +0000

Stop making strawman arguments around billionaires and trillion $$ companies. The only company which can take on Apple is another large company with passionate user following. Small developers like you and me just come here on Hacker News and argue. But it leads to nothing as Apple simply ignores us.

New comment by product50 in "China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership"

product50 — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 22:56:25 +0000

I actually think you are Chinese. Why lie to make your point?

New comment by product50 in "Silicon Valley’s Vast Data Collection Should Worry You More Than TikTok"

product50 — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 02:14:05 +0000

Whoever the author is, I hope that he doesn't have a Uighur relative in Xinjiang in jail trying to get reformed and a friend in Hong Kong trying to free the country.

If you were in China, you couldn't even write an article criticizing Tiktok like here the author here is writing an article criticizing SV. Have some perspective.

New comment by product50 in "Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects"

product50 — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 17:47:51 +0000

You are talking as if somehow non-Americans have access to more liberties across non-government entities in their lives. If anything, Americans treasure and enjoy the most freedoms across the widest gamut of institutions vs. non Americans.

New comment by product50 in "U.S. citizens no longer have access to most of the world"

product50 — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 19:58:59 +0000

If you are ignorant it is not on everyone else to bring you upto speed. There have been several articles on this already. Here is something you should try. Next time, goto a tourist hotspot such as Iceland or Venice and ask the locals there - which country citizens do they like the most. And they will tell you straight.

New comment by product50 in "U.S. citizens no longer have access to most of the world"

product50 — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:12:53 +0000

This is just a matter of time. Almost all countries actually want US citizens to come there, for tourism purposes, due to their high spend potential (relative to other countries).

New comment by product50 in "Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund"

product50 — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:50:02 +0000

As a user I am totally happy with Amazon's service. They shouldn't change their entire setup and make things a lot more expensive for everyone based on these infrequent use cases.

And Amazon customer support is awesome. Your bullet 2 is false.

New comment by product50 in "India, Jio, and the Four Internets"

product50 — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 03:14:02 +0000

I hope you realize that in your definition of "us" it is just you and a small grp of your European friends. Rest of Europe are busy searching on Google and sharing photos on Instagram.

New comment by product50 in "India, Jio, and the Four Internets"

product50 — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:56:52 +0000

Wow - such great companies. I am flattered. Please be real. US has FB, Google, MSFT, Apple. China has Tencent, Alibaba, Bytedance. And look at the list you have come up for Europe.

New comment by product50 in "India, Jio, and the Four Internets"

product50 — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:41:22 +0000

Where is the Europe's alternate to US's or Chinese companies? Please give examples to support your cases vs. just calling out your biases. It is so unfortunate that Europe has just allowed itself to be so dominated by US' and Chinese (in the case of Huawei) companies.

New comment by product50 in "An update on our security incident"

product50 — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 06:29:19 +0000

What a joke of a company. They literally have done nothing in terms of building innovative products in the past 7 yrs since IPO and their monthly active users is static. And then, to distract away from their poor product roadmap, they take controversial political stands - but which don't result in any major impact given mostly bots and celebrities use that platform. And now this.

Keep in mind, some 4k employees work in this jungle. Don't know what they do apart from just tweeting #lovewhereyouwork

New comment by product50 in "NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client"

product50 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:31:28 +0000

I hope you realize that apps like these kill the ecosystem for content creators who are paid based on ads. If you don't like YT ads, pay for the premium version. But suggesting that this app is great is not right. Anyways, I trust if this becomes big, YT will kill them anyways.

YT API requires keys and they know exactly what is going on here and can shut it down in a heartbeat if they want to. This is exactly what happened to apps built on top of Twitter APIs back in the day.

New comment by product50 in "New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads"

product50 — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 08:35:22 +0000

You can always opt out ad tracking in iPhone, even today, by using Limit Ad Tracking option in Settings.

New comment by product50 in "India’s daunting challenge: There’s water everywhere, and nowhere"

product50 — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:33:25 +0000

How do I read this article? Looks like it is behind a paywall.

New comment by product50 in "Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App"

product50 — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:03:12 +0000

If ever there was a one sided article, it was this. Doesn't even talk about the nuances of the problems. Journalists are like how dare tech people are criticizing us - but it is totally ok to do it the other way round. The difference now though is, because of social media, prominent tech personalities have much bigger audiences.

Sometimes I am thankful like services like Twitter and Facebook exists since these types of biases are for everyone to see and make independent calls on. Before, it would have been like whatever NYTimes said would be taken as the truth as there would have been no platform available to present your pov.

New comment by product50 in "Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'"

product50 — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 23:33:16 +0000

You are right. It is becoming too difficult for me to control myself when I read something written by someone being ignorant. Maybe, I should do a better job letting it go vs. attacking. I have been working on it - but I do hope that you are noticing that the frequency of my tirades are going down.

New comment by product50 in "Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'"

product50 — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:58:06 +0000

You have no idea what you are saying. You need to go deep to have sane arguments.

If FB loses 100M users in US, they are actually going to lose their shit vs. them losing 100M users in APAC. Get real. The fact of the matter is no user in US (where almost all the uproar is) is leaving

ALso, most people knew about FB having majority of its spend from large advertisers. The stock fell because Wall St felt that the boycott will go deeper (or will impact usage numbers) but it just fizzled out with some big brands. And that doesn't matter. So it is back up again.

New comment by product50 in "Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'"

product50 — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 18:34:54 +0000

400 advertisers, who are the largest brands, have already boycotted Facebook. And the stock is near all time high (it recovered the losses this week) and Zuckerberg is pretty much saying he won't change nothing. So there you have it. Very likely this will hurt advertisers more (since they now have lower ROI) vs. Facebook whose large base of performance driven and small advertisers (who don't have much brand to speak of) will take over.

Only thing which matters in the end is whether users continue engaging with Facebook. Money will flow thereafter. If users don't engage, even if the money is coming in for the time being, it will raise red flags across the board. This is why Twitter is such a shoddy stock to own - since their user numbers have been stagnant since 2013 regardless of how strong their ad business is.

This is social media 101.

New comment by product50 in "Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'"

product50 — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 18:03:11 +0000

You are absolutely wrong on both counts.

THe only real change will come from users. If Facebook users start boycotting (and to be clear no users are doing this), that is what will hurt them. So while you and I continue to be outraged, a lot of users don't care enough and just goto Facebook to see what their friends are doing and clicking on that ad. And the wheel keeps on turning around.

Employee activism won't matter much for Facebook. Unlike Google, Zuckerberg holds all the keys and he is firm/unwavering to his principles. Also, the core set of employees stick with him. Check out how Chris Cox just rejoined Facebook.

New comment by product50 in "Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'"

product50 — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 17:56:13 +0000

Last 10 things I bought from FB ads. All arrived and our family loves it.

Anecdotes are just that - one off instances. What matters is the trend. And a lot of users buy from Facebook Ads and are happy with it. That is why Facebook revenue keeps growing at 25% yoy on a massive base of $70B.