Thursday, April 12, 2012

In Response to Alex

I think the new acquisition of Facebook is brilliant by Mark Zuckerburg.  Buying instagram means big money in the near future.  I recently downloaded the app for my iPhone and I love it, the amount of photo editing you can do to pictures instantly right before you post them is awesome.  I would imagine Zuckerburg bought Instagram because of the similarities between that and Facebook, both have members post photos with captions everyday.  Gaining more members will me more profits, and that's what Instagram will bring.  I do not think that however that Instagram is worth a billion dollars at the moment, however in the near future, it definitely will be! I also think that Facebook paid way to much for Instagram and so do experts but it is being said that Facebook paid this premium because they did not want it to fall into their competitors hands.

In response to Jaycelyn’s post about Apple commercials


Do you think that Apple's ad campaigns make their products sound better than they are? Or do you think that the iPhone is better than say the Droid and the Mac is better than a PC?

I do feel that the Droid is better than the Iphone because there are more apps for free. Undoubtedly Android operating systems and the Droid phones are a spitting image of the Iphone. They both operate under the same principals and have some of the same applications but you still have Iphone loyal customer. I feel this is because some people have had them since the beginning, it was the first one of its kind and they understand how it operates.  In my opinion the Android market has not taken customers from Apple but, has stopped more people from going to the Apple Iphone. It is a very similar debate when discussing PC’s vs Mac’s. Do you think that it makes no sense when someone owns an Iphone but does not own a Mac computer? Are they buying the phone JUST to own an Iphone.