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Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google?

Posted by timothy on from the feel-free-to-send-me-your-discarded-shares dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dallas Mavericks owner and media entrepreneur Mark Cuban thinks he knows the reason for Facebook's disappointing IPO; smart money has realized that 'mobile is going to crush Facebook', as the world's population increasingly accesses the Internet mostly through smartphones and tablets. Cuban notes that the limited screen real estate hampers the branding and ad placement that Google and Facebook are accustomed to when serving to desktop browsers, while phone plans typically have strict data limits, so subscribers won't necessarily take kindly to YouTube or other video ads. Forbes' Eric Jackson likewise sees a generational shift to mobile that will produce a new set of winners at the expense of Facebook and Google."

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  1. Mobile will destroy Google? by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's too bad they don't make phone software or something that could help them pick up at least a little market share in that area, amirite?

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    1. Re:Mobile will destroy Google? by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 5, Funny

      You just don't get it. Mobile is going to hire Steve Ballmer to crush them. With a chair.

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    2. Re:Mobile will destroy Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't know, maybe they are making your momy.

    3. Re:Mobile will destroy Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's too bad they don't make phone software or something that could help them pick up at least a little market share in that area, amirite?

      Exactly. Google is doing way more to get into the mobile business than mobile companies are doing to enter the search business.

      Search? What search? How, exactly, does one do search in a mobile app, other than googling it?

      Fuck I don't know. One thing we can all agree on: Facebook can't possibly die fast enough. DIE FACEBOOK DIE. May all its investors and employees weep and march penniless to the nearest welfare line. May Zuckerberg be followed around with a live TV camera everywhere he goes everything he does and i do mean everything. "Oooh he's taking a shit on Channel 3!" He does like his privacy you know. May his wife divorce him for a morbidly obese redneck truck driver after first cheating on him with his best friend.

    4. Re:Mobile will destroy Google? by MightyMartian · · Score: 3, Funny

      The real irony is that I'm using an iPhone to defend Android.

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  2. Re:FB and Google are NOT in the same situation. by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    All I know is that I have an Android phone, and I feel taken advantage of.

    Are you sore?

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