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People tell LinkedIn "Please, please, pretty please build something that lets me view LinkedIn contact info while reading email on my phone." LinkedIn builds it.


> People tell LinkedIn "Please, please, pretty please build something that lets me view LinkedIn contact info while reading email on my phone."

Did they? Did they really?


No. LinkedIn spent considerable effort building something that nobody wants and nobody will opt into.


I think you're joking, but we both know this isn't the first time they've done that.


> No. LinkedIn spent considerable effort building something that nobody wants

That's pretty much what I thought, i.e "LinkedIn spent considerable effort building something that very few of their users want".

Thanks for confirming that there's no evidence otherwise.

It's more common than you may think, especially for companies where the user is not a paying customer and the feature benefits the company. Sure somebody wants this feature. Somebody who works for linkedin and isn't a security geek.

And for companies with poor-decision-making skills or short-term thinking.


To be fair, he didn't say which people...




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