The Case For Apple Buying Facebook

The article makes the case that Jobs has been hinting that he wants to actually spend some of the $51 billion Apple has been sitting on, and that Facebook is a likely candidate. Considering how thin the Ping social network is, and the integration issues the two companies have had, there are some good reasons for such a deal. And a heck of a lot of reasons why not.

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That's Would Be Too Bad

[BJ_Covert_Action]

It would really suck if a merger or buyout like this actually went through. I use Facebook because it is, currently, the most effective way to keep in contact with 90% of the people that I don't have the time to call on the phone and check up with. It's also a great platform for starting open conversations where my friends from various social circles can interact. To me, it provides a valuable service.

Unfortunately, if Apple bought Facebook I think I would have to close down my profile and find some other platform to work on. I might actually start maintaining my Myspace or something, I don't know. I've been boycotting Apple, personally, since high school after mucking about with iTunes a few times. After realizing how locked down Apple's products are, as well as how belligerent they can be to the rest of your computing environment (honestly, I have never known any other media player program to rearrange and duplicate 70% of my music collection), I decided to not use any of Apple's products from then on.

That said, I wonder if a move like this would cause a lot of people to dump Facebook. I know I am not the only Apple hater within my group of friends, and I suspect the number of folks that might abandon Facebook would be significantly large. This would be doubly so if some other, better social network started coming up around the same time (Some Google product maybe? Or possibly even Apple-seed?)