Marcelo Calbucci

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

If Google is the new Microsoft, Facebook is the new Apple

 

    I have written on how Google is becoming Microsoft, even having trouble with the federal government over its (near) monopoly of search advertising.

 

    Yesterday I realized that Facebook is the new Apple.

 

    You probably read my rant about Josh Lowensohn shallow headline about a Facebook press event. And then I remember Dan Lyon on CNBC calling out the press coverage of Apple, like Apple is the puppet master.

 

    Well, Facebook not only is obsessed with design and cleanliness of its UI (like Apple is), but they also have the press eating at their hand.

 

    The one clear difference between Apple and Facebook is the whole debacle about the Terms-of-Use revision from Facebook last week in which they reverted it back. Apple would just have said "fuck it".

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