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Facebook has more users than Microsoft was able to sell copies of Windows 7 to. Not commenting on any other points raised in this thread except to say: you can
by eaurouge 14y ago
Facebook has more users than Microsoft was able to sell copies of Windows 7 to.
Not commenting on any other points raised in this thread except to say: you can't compare Facebook users to Microsoft customers, there's a big difference.
Edit: To the downvoter. This is not a Facebook vs Microsoft argument. Users don't pay for the product, customers (I'm assuming they bought the software and didn't pirate it) do. It's not the same metric.
- rhizome 14y agoFacebook users are not Facebook's customers.
- MaysonL 14y agoWindows users (for the most part) are not Microsoft customers.
- rhizome 14y agoI know what you're saying, that actual retail sales are not a big deal for them. However, you're making a category error in that "Windows purchases" (as well as Office, etc.) are what defines their customers of Microsoft's software arm where there is no parallel situation on the Facebook side. That is, at all levels, Microsoft's customers are interacting with the same stuff: Microsoft software. For Facebook it's different. Facebook's customers are consuming and interacting with an entirely different resource than Facebook's users. In fact, I'd say that Facebook's customers (advertisers et al) actually have very little social interaction with each other on an experiential basis compared to Facebook's users. This is to say that Facebook likely puts a lot of work into ensuring that nothing on the customer side gets inadvertently shared, unlike the user side.