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Such a bizarre decision too. This is the best chance Meta had to eat Twitter's lunch and obviously the branding is going to make-or-break that. With the massive
by cmcaleer 3y ago
Such a bizarre decision too. This is the best chance Meta had to eat Twitter's lunch and obviously the branding is going to make-or-break that. With the massive +EV potential that represents, and the value provided by owning a .com (as demonstrated by the amount of confusion from people going to threads.com), does it not seem obviously worth it to negotiate extensively with Threads.com for them to rebrand and sell them the .com? It's not going to get cheaper for them if Threads does indeed eat Twitter's lunch.
- wlonkly 3y agoPeople aren't going to _any_ URL, they're opening the app called "Threads".
- cmcaleer 3y agoDid Tiktok stay a mobile app forever? It's just common sense to have your url and eventually serve desktop
- wlonkly 3y agoOn one hand, I agree with you. On the other hand, it's common sense for a photography-and-video oriented social media site to support tablets, and yet there's still no iPad Instagram app! (Although there is a minimal browser version.) From that perspective it would not surprise me if they end up staying app-only, as weird as that seems.