Comments on: Why Apple Should Buy Facebook

By: miles dunford

miles dunford — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:14:03 +0000

windows live 2011 already has alot for facebook integration such as you can instant message people through live im or post a status that will sync to myspace and facebook as well as your windows live account. in my opinion it would be stuped of apple to buy facebook, if they want real money they should start in home automation for instance a iphone app that will open your garage door/gate, or turn on your lights or even turn on the tv to a channel the you specify, and @ dave Williams, apple will never crush microsoft, every os has a place and every one does somthing better than others like osx runs photoshop better and windows runs office or visual studios better. and apple could even do servalence systems beacuse they already have the technology in the iphone camera to do it. and the reason apple will never crush microsoft is that the government isnt going to spend billions of dollors buying new systems and training there people on a new os that prolly three quarters of them have never even played with.

By: Dave Williams

Dave Williams — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:08:17 +0000

I think this is right on. With Facebook Apple could crush Yahoo, m
Microsoft, and Google. This idea is huge and think that Apple should act fast!

By: James

James — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:44:54 +0000

Apple should buy facebook.

It needs a redesign from the ground up.

The current layout is too cluttered, hard to navigate and each new version actually makes it worse!

Apple surely could take this networking site and simplify it.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:06:37 +0000

I think they should be able to tie iChat and the chat feature in Facebook together. And also I think they should improve the iPhone app for Facebook. It could really use some touch-ups.

By: Daniel R

Daniel R — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:45:15 +0000

It would seem senseless for Apple to downgrade it’s “polished” status into social-web based markets such as ad profits. Rather than wasting it’s reserves just becuase it has reserves (something Microsoft is unanimously famous for), Apple should aim to increase its R&D budget, and create more fine products instead of monopolizing the social websites like FB or twitter.

By: Ian waugh

Ian waugh — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:32:14 +0000

I would have to agree with David there. On one hand, it would be really cool for Apple to buy facebook it would not be a really good envestment at all for Apple. Their money would be better spent elseware.

By: David Beck

David Beck — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:21:45 +0000

The idea that Apple should go out and spend they cash reserves just because they have cash reserves is absurd and it’s that kind of thinking that keeps the American population middle class.
I strongly doubt that Apple could make any serious money off of Facebook, Twitter or any other ad based service. They aren’t an ad based company like Google and would either waste time and effort learning to do it right or fail miserably at it.
A gaming company may make more sense if Apple is looking to enter the game market as they have hinted at, but a large company like EA doesn’t make sense because of their large overhead.
The truth is that the reserves keeps Apple from going under like certain other companies have during the recession and gets them ready to strike back the second the economy picks back up. While HP and Microsoft are hiring back all the employees they fired, Apple will be already hard at work.