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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.
Let Microsoft buy Adobe, then let Apple buy Facebook. That way, they're all in one place when we nuke them from orbit.
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
Are you sure? Looks valuable to me...
So negative!
Sounds like a good plan to me, and maybe Apple would have the know-how to stop all these privacy leaks.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
100 billion dollars [raise pinkie to lip]
Buy Dell and close it down. Just to make Michael Dell eat his words.
Sharks included?
I think Steve wont be interested unless they come pre-installed with the laser beams.
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
That was before Farmville.
I know people who own farms who spend just as much time on Farmville as they do working on their real farms.
--jeffk++
ipv6 is my vpn
The new, improved! Fapple!
Yah, I'd want a different social media website too. And a shower. Yech.
"What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
"A four-foot prune."
Apple can't have caused the housing crash, Apple-made houses have no windows which makes them crash-proof.
The Canadian Industry Association? What about them?
As opposed to the antisocial site Livejournal.
Well, if you don't like it, you can fuck off and leave us alone!
Wait, hang on...
Facebook staff have been amazed to discover that when Facebook passes users' complete details to application developers and advertisers, some of the partner companies might accidentally let slip the information in some manner.
"We are appalled at this information leak," said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as he took a break from his personal RSS feed of drunk women's tits posted to his service. "But I can assure you that we have sternly suggested to everyone involved that they take somewhat greater care not to get caught, and maintain a serious demeanor when rolling around in the great big pit filled with money in their basement."
"I'm horrified and outraged," said office worker Brenda Busybody, 43 (IQ), "that stuff I put on the Internet is on the Internet. It violates everything I expect. I want privacy when I'm calling my boss a useless fuckstick to the entire world, all my coworkers and my boss himself. And when I'm playing a bit of FarmVille before we nick off down the pub."
Privacy advocates are working on Diaspora, a security-enhanced social network so far populated by Linux users who cryptographically sign every update about which episode of Babylon 5 they just finished watching alone in their parents' basement. "START PGP KEY BLOCK!" said open source software advocate Hiram Nerdboy, 17. "WE WILL PROTECT YOUR FREEDOMS!" The next version of Diaspora will allow users to list more than three friends, should there be any demand whatsoever for such a feature.
Facebook works on the now-standard "Web 2.0" business model: 1. Brutally sodomise the personal privacy of anyone who comes within a mile of your service and say "hey baby, I'm sorry" every time you're busted. 2. Sell ads.
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...Except for the fact that Facebook has an elevated self-worth at the moment. Social networks really only have a lifespan of a few years before they are no longer used by the masses.
What are you talking about? You're talking like some of the biggest Internet companies in the world are just passing fads? That millions of users will just dry up and blow away? where are they going to go? Take all the trouble of learning some NEW website (which you probably don't' think will last long). Fact is dotcom acquisitions are solid investments for larger traditional companies, I just read that in an article from AOL-Time Warner. (see what I did there?)
Apple can't have caused the housing crash, Apple-made houses have no windows which makes them crash-proof.
Some people might consider glass walls to be windows.
Windows and glass walls: they seem to be pretty similar, until you want them to open.
What makes you think Apple is interested in your privacy?
Privacy sells.
A house built by apple would consist of opaque glass walls that shatter if you open the door wrong, loose wi-fi reception if you sit wrong, and wont allow you to look at porn while on the shitter. Where do i get one?
Ha ha!
Apparently one of Murdoch's serfs has mod points today.
-FL
I wish Palm had the money to buy Facebook, then I just might stick around just for the name.