Comments on: Apple + Twitter? No

By: IT Certification Training

IT Certification Training — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:10:48 +0000

even i dont think apple has got to do anything with twitter

By: PacificGatePost

PacificGatePost — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:20:54 +0000

As much as the rumor mill is pushing the Twitter acquisition story, it flies in the face of common sense.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2009/05/com...

Apple is NOT eBay.

Going all the way back to ’81 when Apple established an alliance of sorts with Logo Computer Systems for the Logo programming language that solidified Apple’s position in the world of education, the hardware manufacturer has a history of establishing effective relationships to solidify its market presence. Spending $700 million on Twitter doesn’t fit that blueprint

By: Twitter Corral … a deluge of rumor crap — Shooting at Bubbles

Twitter Corral … a deluge of rumor crap — Shooting at Bubbles — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:35:58 +0000

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By: jcieplinski

jcieplinski — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:09:51 +0000

Microsoft buying Twitter makes absolute sense. They are fond of buying companies with a buzz, just to make it look like they have a handle on whatever new hot trends arrive on the scene. Microsoft is all about the amazing product they're going to release two years from now. But that product never seems to materialize.

And they have scores of divisions within the company that bleed money every month.

I only hope this doesn't happen, though, because I like Twitter, and I see any company that gets acquired by MSoft these days as a soon-to-be-dead company. This is the same reason I opposed the purchase of Yahoo!

Microsoft is the past. It has no future. It is the Great Britain of the computer industry.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:53:24 +0000

Yeah... anybody who has observed Apple's modus operandi for more than a year
and does even the smallest amount of research could see this rumor is
ridiculous.
I still think someone will purchase Twitter, but it will be a company with a
past history of a hype-driven move: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, etc. It won't
be Apple.

Zune + Twitter. Now that's a rumor I'd believe...

By: jcieplinski

jcieplinski — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:51:11 +0000

Couldn't agree more. Not to mention, every article on this rumor goes out of its way to say that its sources are completely unverified. In other words, someone completely pulled this one out of his butt.

And it really does make no sense. Every division of Apple is profitable. Even when Apple gives away an app, like iPhoto, that app still generates revenue via photo print and photo book sales. Even Garageband now sells music lessons. There's always some sort of revenue stream from just about everything they do.

Twitter, no matter how good an idea it is, no matter how many Oprah's and Aston Kusher's sign up, has no business model whatsoever. It functions purely on venture capital. That's not the Apple way of doing things.

Unless someone at Apple has figured out some brilliant way to make money off twitter that no one else has, this is never going to happen. And to be honest, I don't know how anyone could make money off of twitter. You can't attach ads to tweets, and you can't charge people subscription fees, because they'd all just quit using it. It's a dead-end business. Maybe someone like Google or Facebook could incorporate it into a larger overall social media strategy, and run it at a loss in order to enhance the big picture. But Apple has no need for that, and more importantly, no history of ever doing something like that.

Twitter should have jumped on the Facebook deal while it had the chance.