“ Facebook is the new Google - as in, they are building up an army of the best damn software developers on the planet. But having great engineers is not enough. Microsoft, Google, and Facebook have each had a monopoly on great engineers for a period of time. But engineers want to solve hard problems - to build abstractions - to unify 3 different things that seem kinda similar. But this has nothing to do with solving real user problems, which is what Apple excels at. So these amazing engineers need a Product Person to direct them. Steve Jobs. Someone who doesn’t just unify stuff because it’s neat & challenging. Someone who thinks, “what problems do people have?” and then solves those problems (see: iPhone vs. every smartphone before the iPhone). Without a Steve Jobs, Facebook is going to become the new Google. A technical powerhouse that can’t build usable software, because the super-smart engineers have lost touch with real user problems. They need to start shopping for a new CEO, stat.
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