Comments on: Buying Twitter might help Apple figure out how the internet works

By: Tedel

Tedel — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:28:47 +0000

This is strange… Why would a technology company like apple even try to buy a huge waste of time, like Twitter? Apple does not need to be social. It just needs to continue making awesome products.

By: Creative Slave

Creative Slave — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:39:27 +0000

Apple have bigger problems to deal with beside social media. The iPhone and iPad are incremental improvements on the ipod Touch. Where is Apple’s next innovative project going to come from?

I’d like to see Twitter stay private and possible become a crowd-funded open source project like Wikipedia. Anyone else feel the same?

By: Stephen LeMaitre

Stephen LeMaitre — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:22:12 +0000

I would *FAR* rather see Google buy Apple than it happening the other way around.

It would also make a lot more sense, and be far more possible.

By: phd guy, PhDguy

phd guy, PhDguy — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:46:24 +0000

I have seen an article on phdguy website http://www.phdguy.com about future of web and death of google and facebook.

By: pkadam

pkadam — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 04:01:27 +0000

Dropbox is getting too big in the head and decided not to be friendly with apps in the Apple ecosystem.

I find it strange that companes like Box or Sugarsync are getting better and play well with reader apps – I am only referring to the mobile platform. No doubt Dropbox is the easiest to use but being not able to play well with others makes it a minus in my opinion.

Looks like all of us are better than Appe in how to make their business works. Yes we are the arm chair gurus and they are clueless.

And I wonder why Apple ex employees are bad mouthing the company now and if they were that good I believe they should be SVPs now instead of still being in the rank and file.

By: TinyVox: Tape&Tweet

TinyVox: Tape&Tweet — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:14:25 +0000

Network effects are so hard to duplicate though… I honestly think Twitter users are staying put. If they’re getting value out of it today, they won’t leave for a different service just because it’s available, and most likely said future service will post to Twitter, too, anyway. You’d need to create a Twitter for a different market, of non-current-users of Twitter; Yammer did this. Yammer didn’t take a single user away from Twitter on its march to $1.2bn.

By: TinyVox: Tape&Tweet

TinyVox: Tape&Tweet — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:09:54 +0000

Agreed ! Acquisitions can easily destroy value. Pretty much only Google->YouTube has made 1000% sense so far.

By: TinyVox: Tape&Tweet

TinyVox: Tape&Tweet — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:07:48 +0000

@J Scott Anderson there exists an element of utter genius in what you have written. Apple is a hardware company that makes stuff for one user, as opposed to, say, FB, which is useless if only one user were on it.

By: Cyclonus5150

Cyclonus5150 — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:08:43 +0000

Unless the folks making corporate IT purchasing and standardization decisions suddenly stop being so dogmatic and clueless, you’ll never see Apple target that market in earnest. Consumers are far more rational and ultimately make better customers. It’s also easier to innovate when you’re not beholden to the enterprise.

By: Cyclonus5150

Cyclonus5150 — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:02:51 +0000

Apple’s Internet services have been quite successful with the 80% of us – the mainstream consumers. Casual users, which is the Apple target, don’t need Dropbox or sophisticated collaborative capabilities. The only files most people outside of the corporate environment really want to share and collaborate on are photos. Shared Photo Streams absolutely nails it. Facebook dominates the space.

Enhancing collaborative capabilities in iWork simply isn’t a priority for Apple because its not a dominant use case.

I’ve worked in the field of collaborative technology for 15 years and can tell you absolutely that its nearly impossible to get corporate users to leverage even 10% of the functionally that exists within Microsoft’s and IBM’s platforms. It’s some pretty powerful stuff too. People simply aren’t comfortable working that way. They’d prefer to collaborate via the inbox which is an absolute mess.