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Sort of hard to imagine a more ham-fisted owner for something as cool as TikTok. If IBM or GE bought them it wouldn’t make less sense.
by erulabs 6y ago
Sort of hard to imagine a more ham-fisted owner for something as cool as TikTok. If IBM or GE bought them it wouldn’t make less sense.
- wombatmobile 6y agoMurdoch on MySpace: 'We Screwed Up in Every Way Possible' https://www.wired.com/2012/01/murdoch-on-myspace/ https://www.wired.com/2012/01/murdoch-on-myspace/
- dhosek 6y agoI had hoped for more there there when I looked at this article. In this case the headline is pretty much the whole of the content.
- wombatmobile 6y agoIn Act III, Revenge of the Mogul, Murdoch convinces the Australian government to draft new legislation requiring Google and Facebook to subsidise News Corporation's loss making newspapers by paying him for the clicks that send readers to his own websites. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24182494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24182494 ACT II was when Murdoch convinced the Australian government to forgive $882 million in taxes. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/17/rupert-murdoch-receives-882m-tax-rebate https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/17/rupert-murdoch... [Edit] You might find this backstory of interest, dhosek. It's about the time a youthful Zuckerberg kicked sand in the mogul's face https://gizmodo.com/rupert-murdochs-myspace-apparently-still-haunts-mark-zu-1822924885?IR=T https://gizmodo.com/rupert-murdochs-myspace-apparently-still...
- dreen 6y agoA whole new generation will come to know the extent of Larry Ellison.
- therouwboat 6y agoWhy is tiktok cool? Or more cool than vine or imgur.
- DanBC 6y agoVine doesn't exist. Imgur has a mildly toxic community and a load of porn.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y agoImgur has stopped allowing (new, explicit) porn: https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029648691-Mature-Content https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029648691-Mature...
- encom 6y agoWow. Absolutely no fun allowed.
- UncleOxidant 6y agoI think the implication of the question was why did TikTok become "cool" when vine didn't? They're essentially very similar.
- nemothekid 6y agoVine was cool - the reason it died had more to do with Twitter pretty much being in a death spiral before Trump became president. However, the biggest innovation TikTok brought was their own flavor of the algorithmic feed that made finding content a lot easier.
- DanBC 6y agoVine was cool, when it existed, and there are many vine videos which got uploaded to YouTube, and there are many Vine compilations on YT with millions of views.
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- AdmiralGinge 6y agoYeah, this surprised me too. As sceptical as I am of TikTok and its "I can't believe it's not malware" approach to privacy I feel a bit sorry for the poor sods actually developing it. Oracle are going to beat the world record for deepest borehole with how hard they'll run the app into the ground.
- non-entity 6y agoCan't wait to see how they spin it as some overpriced enterprise software while it fades into irrelevancy! /s
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y agoI don't think you need the /s tag there, that's exactly what I expect to happen. I really don't understand what Ellison is trying to accomplish here? Aside from making more money, of course, but I'd be hard pressed to think of a less synergistic combo than Oracle's aging dinosaur enterprises and TikTok's fickle teenagers.
- JetSpiegel 6y ago> I really don't understand what Ellison is trying to accomplish here? Appeasing Trump? > Aside from making more money, of course He can push Trump to lower the price, with the force of the United States Government behind it, then flip it to Microsoft for twice the price in 3 months when Trump loses the election.
- throw_away 6y agoWait for the last minute Kodak bid (which, while improbable and bonkers, would also make at least a kind of sense)
- nick_kline 6y agoOracle is a fun choice. How about Circle-k corporation? Maybe Monsanto/Bayer or Halliburton?