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Does anyone remember the story yesterday about the phone that is YouTube only? Facebook has a massive number of users who check it every day. Humans are socia
by grandalf 16y ago
Does anyone remember the story yesterday about the phone that is YouTube only?
Facebook has a massive number of users who check it every day. Humans are social creatures, and looking at pictures of friends, etc., is like cocaine.
The net is moving toward non-neutrality. The biggest impact of this on the typical end user won't be pain from (say) the inability to watch Vimeo videos on their phone, it will eventually be the inability to access key infrastructure services (like Facebook) without sitting through interruption ads.
There won't be any need to worry about privacy b/c Facebook will be able to sell advertisers the right to hijack your computer or phone for 30-60 seconds multiple times each day.
If there's only one social network available on your phone, then you can't just use a different one if the commercials get too annoying. The same applies to search engines... imagine: "While we complete your search, see this message from Johnson and Johnson".
Once this transformation (which now even Google is unabashedly in favor of) happens, major "internet utility" companies will have legitimate Trillion dollar valuations.
The only reason Goldman partners aren't buying is b/c they have safer, higher Yield alternatives.
- rimantas 16y agoI am already tired by "monetize everything with ads" mentality, and the moment your scenario comes true I won't be using FB anymore.