Owen at Gawker has it from an anonymous source: Apple shall buy Twitter for $700m. But what does it mean?
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God help us indeed. if Apple were a person, it would be a power/content/control tripping person who dresses all in white.
The Internets was all about free speech until the companies started to control the technology. Governments did it before with the mass media.
Automattic should buy Twitter, since Facebook is making blogs irrelevant for the masses.
Please, do not cry.
Apple’s got other things to do with $700000000.
OTOH, Apple buying Twitter /will/ make a /whole lot/ of analysts’ heads explode …
Noooooooooooooo. Twitter might actually develop a business model! Disastrous!
hmmmmm, if this were true, then the twitter interface would become all shiny and efficient.
no doubt it would be vastly improved, and at that point all that made twitter, twitter would be lost.
there is a place for twitter, just not in the apple stable.
@#1 – make that someone who dresses in black skivvies and you’d be spot on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
LMAO! very, very funny. It’s just sad that it’s accurate :=( @robblewis
@OP: LOL, wonderful parody.
While Apple may be known for style and effective UIs, a lot of people forget just how rigid and draconian the company can be. They like to be in control of everything, including what goes on your device and how.
I have no doubt Apple would come down on the poor service. Within minutes the service would become an online text message service, with all the caveats and costs of SMS. The privacy policy would disappear, you’d be nickled and dimed as you used it, and all of the external APIs would cease to function.
…and yet, it would become even more popular because hipsters would jump on it for the Apple brand.
This just may be the payoff Twitter was hoping for.
Sorry, Twitter co-founder has already debunked this over at mashables:
http://mashable.com/2009/05/06/twitter-not-for-sale/
I don’t use Twitter, but most of the comments here have claimed Apple would destroy Twitter, and the internets is all DIY blah blah blah.
But that’s just silly. Every product that Apple has absorbed, they ended up drastically improving.
Logic Pro is infinitely better than it was just five years ago.