Comments on: Apple Could Copy Twitter But It Won’t, and Here’s Why http://gigaom.com/2011/06/01/apple-could-copy-twitter-but-it-wont-and-heres-why/ Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ItsDaPoleece http://gigaom.com/2011/06/01/apple-could-copy-twitter-but-it-wont-and-heres-why/#comment-628523 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:54:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=353522#comment-628523 This article and perspective is fundamentally flawed. It is assuming Apple would add a profitable social media element to an existing free service (iTunes) while testing the company’s untested social networking business model. Wouldn’t it make more sense instead to go in the complete opposite direction? To add a free social networking element to a product which makes Apple a tremendous amount of profit (the iPhone), thus generating even more sales of that item?

This may sound ridiculous, but the best way for Apple to tiptoe into the social media market is by copying Blackberry’s BBM service. If all iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches shipped with iProduct Exclusive Messaging, hoards of people would instantly live on it. With the power of All iProduct Owners at your fingertips, it would have the potential to compete with Yahoo! Answers (especially on a local scale), Craigslist, Foursquare, and Twitter all in one fell swoop. A company-wide messaging/media service is exactly what all tech-industry giants are missing. And for a business like Apple, run solely on providing fully compatible and integrated media technology every step of the way, this is the -only- logical step to take into the social media market. With chatting, check-ins, checkouts, and Apple User Omniscience, I don’t see how this could fail. And for once, luckily for Apple, there isn’t yet an app for that.

My name is Zach, and yes, I’m a genius.

]]> By: iTunes Vouchers http://gigaom.com/2011/06/01/apple-could-copy-twitter-but-it-wont-and-heres-why/#comment-628318 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:28:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=353522#comment-628318 LOL at Xio comment below. Touche indeed.
The last thing we need is another social medium to confuse us!
Thanks for sharing – now I am off to tweet this, on the real twitter.

On another note, why can’t iTunes take something and not screw it right up (read any type of music you ever add to a library)

]]> By: Michael Pinto http://gigaom.com/2011/06/01/apple-could-copy-twitter-but-it-wont-and-heres-why/#comment-628355 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:17:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=353522#comment-628355 Twitter doesn’t quite fit the Apple brand because Apple has always been a multimedia company. Even when Jobs was demoing email on the NeXT he was showing it off as a way to send voice mails. If Apple were to do anything it would be much more like Facebook (but cleaner looking), a real full experience that takes advantage of their hardware. Although I’ve noticed that Apple doesn’t go out of their way to promote user generated content as its own platform.

]]> By: Jake http://gigaom.com/2011/06/01/apple-could-copy-twitter-but-it-wont-and-heres-why/#comment-628302 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:59:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=353522#comment-628302 Twitter is web based? When did that happen?

]]> By: Xio http://gigaom.com/2011/06/01/apple-could-copy-twitter-but-it-wont-and-heres-why/#comment-628174 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:01:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=353522#comment-628174 “Apple isn’t interested in creating something first, and then finding a way to make it profitable later. ”
Apple TV?

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