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Author/Founder of @stratechery. Host of @exponentfm. @notechben for sports. @monkbent on other networks. Home on the Internet.

Taipei, Taiwan
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    Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 3 Feb 2014

    For someone averse to change - aka most of the FB userbase - what is the motivation to switch to Paper? I bet it fizzles.

    8:38 PM - 3 Feb 2014
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      2. Jonathan Libov‏ @libovness 3 Feb 2014
        Replying to @benthompson

        @monkbent A part of me wonders if Paper isn’t mainly intended to dazzle hoity toity app lovers rather than make a real play to mainstream

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      3. Ben Thompson‏Verified account @benthompson 3 Feb 2014
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        @libovness same here

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      4. Jonathan Libov‏ @libovness 4 Feb 2014
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        @monkbent Just blogged this: http://whoo.ps/2014/02/04/facebook-paper-and-the-irony-of-the-digital-hoity-toity …

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      1. pobregizmo‏ @pobregizmo 3 Feb 2014
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        @monkbent Maybe this is the best way to explore radical UI changes for them. Still has the upside of experimentation without user discontent

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      1. Mani‏ @manicakes 3 Feb 2014
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        @monkbent Beautiful, technically impressive app that fails the "job to be done" question. Agree that it will probably fizzle.

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      1. David Corsi‏ @boldblue737 3 Feb 2014
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        @monkbent the look is cool but my ability to scan Facebook is much slower and that isn’t good. I am close to giving up on it.

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      1. James Huff‏ @MacManX 3 Feb 2014
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        @monkbent I'm no analyst, but FB did say they were doubling down on mobile apps in 2014. Paper could be no more than "Look, we make stuff!"

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      1. Rajus Korde‏ @rkorde 3 Feb 2014
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        @monkbent would say it initially competes with the Flipboard/Pulse/Reader use case. Pretty elegant UI/UX.

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      1. David Rosenblum‏ @TweetByDavid 3 Feb 2014
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        @monkbent as good as Paper is, I agree. It's Facebook for people who don't like Facebook and, yet, care about their Facebook experience.

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      1. Sam Gross‏ @SamTheGeek 3 Feb 2014
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        @monkbent Or we could look at it as a tech demo slash prototype of how Facebook is going to move into the incumbent phase of its life.

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      1. Chris Kurdziel  🤘🏻‏ @ckurdziel 3 Feb 2014
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        @monkbent agree. UX is too much of a departure and there are small things that have a big impact on stickiness of the app

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