Comments on: The Perfect Reason why Apple should buy Twitter http://emcons.net/blog/2009/05/08/the-perfect-reason-why-apple-should-buy-twitter/ Christoph Burgdorfer's Weblog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:58:30 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Christoph http://emcons.net/blog/2009/05/08/the-perfect-reason-why-apple-should-buy-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-218748 Christoph Sat, 09 May 2009 07:11:30 +0000 http://emcons.net/blog/index.php/2009/05/08/the-perfect-reason-why-apple-should-buy-twitter/#comment-218748 @nickpick: at least 3 reasons why Twitter would be a better alternative: a.) e-mail is not authenticated, Twitter is (I can send you an e-mail which looks like it's coming from "bill gates") b.) Twitter is centralised, e-mail is decentralised (centralisation is good to control spamming for example) c.) Twitter has the popular "feed" functionality. Practically an rss feed but in a sexier packaging. I don't know if Oprah Winfrey Has got an rss feed - she certainly got a Twitter feed. @Nako: great idea! certainly, I'm up for it! ;) @nickpick: at least 3 reasons why Twitter would be a better alternative:
a.) e-mail is not authenticated, Twitter is (I can send you an e-mail which looks like it’s coming from “bill gates”)
b.) Twitter is centralised, e-mail is decentralised (centralisation is good to control spamming for example)
c.) Twitter has the popular “feed” functionality. Practically an rss feed but in a sexier packaging. I don’t know if Oprah Winfrey Has got an rss feed – she certainly got a Twitter feed.

@Nako: great idea! certainly, I’m up for it! ;)

]]> By: Mario Aeby http://emcons.net/blog/2009/05/08/the-perfect-reason-why-apple-should-buy-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-218655 Mario Aeby Fri, 08 May 2009 10:52:49 +0000 http://emcons.net/blog/index.php/2009/05/08/the-perfect-reason-why-apple-should-buy-twitter/#comment-218655 I don't think so: - 25 Million Twitter users compared to 4 billion mobile handsets being manufactured in 2010 [1]. - Twitter is proprietary bullshit (from a technical point of view), SMS is standardized. SMS is used by billions out there and I don't see how you wanna convert billions of accustomed SMS users to become Twitter fans over night. - Usual people don't get the concept of Twitter. Do you really want your sensitive love letter sms to end up on Twitter.com? Twitter is 1:n, while SMS stays 1:1 (of course you can send private messages through Twitter, but its the default setting that matters: Twitter = public, SMS = private) - Twitter is discrete - if you miss a message from someone, it doesn't really matter ... but what about the SMS from your girlfriend telling she'll be 10 minutes late for your date? You don't wanna get this info by Twitter, do you? - You need a permanent internet connection to receive Twits. SMS you get on every GSM network, even if it is dead slow (much less overhead than HTTP). Always remember that Apple is following the KISS approach. Why a) put in a middleman (Twitter) and b) why replace a common standard? I hope they don't buy Twitter, but if they do, please Apple, don't pay a too high price for it. It's just a hype, after all! [1] http://www.intomobile.com/2007/05/09/soren-petersen-cell-phone-industry-to-sell-4-billion-handsets-by-2010.html I don’t think so:

- 25 Million Twitter users compared to 4 billion mobile handsets being manufactured in 2010 [1].
- Twitter is proprietary bullshit (from a technical point of view), SMS is standardized. SMS is used by billions out there and I don’t see how you wanna convert billions of accustomed SMS users to become Twitter fans over night.
- Usual people don’t get the concept of Twitter. Do you really want your sensitive love letter sms to end up on Twitter.com? Twitter is 1:n, while SMS stays 1:1 (of course you can send private messages through Twitter, but its the default setting that matters: Twitter = public, SMS = private)
- Twitter is discrete – if you miss a message from someone, it doesn’t really matter … but what about the SMS from your girlfriend telling she’ll be 10 minutes late for your date? You don’t wanna get this info by Twitter, do you?
- You need a permanent internet connection to receive Twits. SMS you get on every GSM network, even if it is dead slow (much less overhead than HTTP).

Always remember that Apple is following the KISS approach. Why a) put in a middleman (Twitter) and b) why replace a common standard? I hope they don’t buy Twitter, but if they do, please Apple, don’t pay a too high price for it. It’s just a hype, after all!

[1] http://www.intomobile.com/2007/05/09/soren-petersen-cell-phone-industry-to-sell-4-billion-handsets-by-2010.html

]]> By: nako http://emcons.net/blog/2009/05/08/the-perfect-reason-why-apple-should-buy-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-218643 nako Fri, 08 May 2009 08:17:53 +0000 http://emcons.net/blog/index.php/2009/05/08/the-perfect-reason-why-apple-should-buy-twitter/#comment-218643 man, I like you're logic. what could even more interesting is taking the mash-up nature of twitter and reinventing the SMS. it's an SMS that extends as developers create add-ons. again, because of the nature of the iPhone, you could retrieve the twitter variables, hum... should we do an app? ;) man, I like you’re logic. what could even more interesting is taking the mash-up nature of twitter and reinventing the SMS. it’s an SMS that extends as developers create add-ons. again, because of the nature of the iPhone, you could retrieve the twitter variables, hum… should we do an app? ;)

]]> By: NickPick http://emcons.net/blog/2009/05/08/the-perfect-reason-why-apple-should-buy-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-218638 NickPick Fri, 08 May 2009 06:44:42 +0000 http://emcons.net/blog/index.php/2009/05/08/the-perfect-reason-why-apple-should-buy-twitter/#comment-218638 Why not just send an email in the first place? People on the iphone have push email anyway. Why not just send an email in the first place? People on the iphone have push email anyway.

]]> By: granny http://emcons.net/blog/2009/05/08/the-perfect-reason-why-apple-should-buy-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-218626 granny Fri, 08 May 2009 00:08:20 +0000 http://emcons.net/blog/index.php/2009/05/08/the-perfect-reason-why-apple-should-buy-twitter/#comment-218626 apple doesn't buy stuff that sucks. apple doesn’t buy stuff that sucks.

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