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metcalfe's law disagrees with you.

• Macha 15y ago
  The increase in value to Facetime would not compensate for the loss in value of iOS with it no longer being an iOS exclusive. Facetime is a free service used by Apple to sell Apple devices. It is not an end to itself.
  • spot 15y ago
    maybe, but "little to nothing" is just plain wrong.
    • masklinn 15y ago
      No, if the value of the move to Apple would be at best non-existent and at worst negative, which you've just agreed is a strong possibility, there's little to nothing for Apple in such a move. Apple does not care about metcalfe's law in fine, their goal is not to convert the world to Facetime and iMessage but to use those to drive users to iOS. Network effects play a role in this, but by letting Google build iMessages and Facetime into Android (if Google was even interested in doing such a thing, which they probably wouldn't) they'd only lower the value proposition of iOS: now you can chat with your facetime-enabled iOS-sporting friends without buying and iOS device, meaning you have one less reason to buy an iOS device.