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Facebook and Google Would Like Apple to Feature Them More Prominently on iOS

mac 2005 said:
How is this news, especially when Schmidt declines to discuss the rift with Apple or anything he's willing to do to mend it?
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I agree why is this front page news? Also why are these guys side stepping the question. Answer the damn question.
 
2ndchancephones said:
I never understood the meltdown about Apple maps...they have ALWAYS worked great for me. I live in Texas and go to some "in the middle of nowhere" places and they have done their job for me. Have they led me other places sometimes? Yes, but Google maps have done the same thing.
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That last bit is the big one for me. GoogleMaps is perfect either. And you could get to it just fine on Safari, plus several map apps. So why the end of the world chatter
 
Frisco said:
Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are all garbage. MySpace is dead and I wish the same for the other 2.
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You are friends with / are following the wrong people. Don't blame the platforms for your circles.

ArizonaKid said:
I would certainly want the option to have deeper integration with iOS for third party applications. This isn't new and I agree with the execs.

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Apple isn't the best solution for all things. I personally would love to set Google Maps as my default mapping client, Mailbox as my default email client - should you disagree don't download the app. Were both happy.
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Agreed. I would appreciate optional and transparent integration.
 
BC2009 said:
I would not mind if Apple made iMessage/SMS have the option of expressing itself like Chat Heads and then letting Facebook plug into that as yet another messaging provider.

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More like Messages on the Mac. I dig it. I wouldn't mind some kind of app or even newsstand like shelf for all my social connections in one spot. If not in Messages.
 
Eric Schmidt, can go you know what...

They want this because they know they are becoming irrelevant soon. The more the iPhone gets on new carriers that only had Android exclusively, the more market share they are losing.

I was just in a TMobile in VA and asked if they had any iPhones and the guy said they had more coming in but if you wanted to buy one, they had to send you to another store or have the store ship it because they couldn't keep them in stock.

7 month old phone and they can't even keep it in stock.

Android, my friends, is screwed...
 
figgnuttan said:
So, Schmidt steals iOS and makes Android. Lest we forget!
Suckerberg is a tech wannabe. One trick poney.
Ten years out, there will be no Facebook.
I have looked at it. Don't see the worth?
Lots of friends in my phone that I have never even seen (I like real people to rave with) ....

I don't usually post, but the whole Andnoid and Facesuck proliferation is
not for thinking adults. Interestingly, I read teenagers are adopting iOS
in favor of their fragmented devices. Maybe there's hope after all?

I have no problem with cheep people buying cheep devices. This will always be the situation amongst us humans.
However, in the long run, Apple will prevail. Exceptional hardware. User friendly operating system.
As far as cost, you get what you pay for. Seems many people are content to pay for what they get....lol...
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Say FB is dead in ten years; that's still a lot of phones. And I suppose it bears repeating: social media doesn't have to suck. If you hate what people put on there, stop following them. Find people that share good stuff. Treat it like an RSS feed; you might like it and you might learn.
I don't understand what social media integration (and don't forget Google's piece in this story: better maps) would do to cost.

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BC2009 said:
I would not mind if Apple made iMessage/SMS have the option of expressing itself like Chat Heads and then letting Facebook plug into that as yet another messaging provider.
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Until they do: jailbreak and install BiteSMS :)

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AZREOSpecialist said:
Apple, keep doing what you're doing - it's gotten you this far. Wall Street, Zuck and Schmidt can suck it.
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Fully! Apple, the 2nd most-valuable company in the world, doesn't give two s***s about Wall Street. Nailed it. :rolleyes:
 
2ndchancephones said:
I never understood the meltdown about Apple maps...they have ALWAYS worked great for me. I live in Texas and go to some "in the middle of nowhere" places and they have done their job for me. Have they led me other places sometimes? Yes, but Google maps have done the same thing.
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I think that the problem is that there are many areas with very low quality of maps, especially for points of interest, and especially outside of the US. If you live in a well covered area, i think apple maps is way better than google one. But if you are unlucky to live in a country that apple maps cant even pick a single point of interest well, even major landmarks or hotel chains, then you quickly see that googles product, as a whole and worldwide product, is better.
 
Thank god that Facebook home crap isn't on the iPhone!!! The last thing I need is those stupid heads everywhere!!!!
 
a0me said:
But Apple Maps didn't work AT ALL for millions of other users. There's a reason why Google Maps for iPhone was downloaded by over 10 million people in 48 hours after the app was released.
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And before that... the old Apple/Google maps didn't have turn-by-turn navigation.

I had to buy MotionX

No solution can be all things to all people...
 
We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s ********.” Audience roars.
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http://searchengineland.com/apple-ceo-google-wants-to-kill-the-iphone-34763


So maybe if Google wasn't so evil, and maybe if Google had not tried to kill the iPhone then MAYBE Apple would allow them. But it is way too late now. They tried to kill the iPhone, and nobody will ever forgive them for that.
 
duffman9000 said:
FB and Google want data. Which is valuable, to put it lightly.
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People are already using Facebook on their iPhones. If you have an iPhone and use Facebook... chances are you already have the app installed. Facebook is getting the data.

So what if it's not prominently featured on the iPhone lock screen?

Same for Google. They already get tons of data from iPhone users... not to mention their own Android users.

Jesus... Google's Android has 70% smartphone market share... and the iPhone has 20%

That means Google gets data from 90% of the smartphone market... and that's still not enough?!?!?

Cry me a river, Schmidt...
 
Ditto!

2ndchancephones said:
I never understood the meltdown about Apple maps...they have ALWAYS worked great for me. I live in Texas and go to some "in the middle of nowhere" places and they have done their job for me. Have they led me other places sometimes? Yes, but Google maps have done the same thing.
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I agree 100% as I too live in Texas and Google maps "misled" me to a destination other than the one I desired. Apple maps are WAY better. And I can HEAR Apple's map app and it was not blatantly ripped off Google as most of Google's Android looks like iOS.
 
"you can have my mapping app but i wont give you the turn-by-turn navigation feature on your iphone. it is an android-only feature i hope you understand."

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"oh you got your own mapping app now, cool. are we still friends? i'll like to be featured more on your iphone though. no hard feelings? i was just being competitive over the mapping app back then. silly me huh?"
 
Facebook is myspace! It's so convoluted, complex, and difficult to understand. Every time i click on anything I'm afraid: 1. be announced to the world that i clicked it. or 2. hijacking.

As much as people love facebook. I'm certain that history will repeat itself. Something fun and simple will eventually come along and people will flock. Zuckerberg was smart to buy instigram.


That being said, Google is an amazing company and i wish they could play nice with Apple because google is going to be very important for a very long time.
 
This Kara chick sounds annoying. When did they start to let women use pens?

As for integration that will be 75 billion each please.

Google and Facebook are two of the biggest ad sales companies in the world. Apple has the absolute cream of the crop real estate. In theory it should work well. Apple sells hardware and software, google sells users. However apple does not trust either of them so they instead decide to take their own rough road to capitalize on the most valuable ad space access available.

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HishamAkhtar said:
Google is like the crazy girl that's trying to make her ex (Apple) jealous by hooking up with her new boyfriend (FB) in public. Gross.
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Google and Facebook didn't really hook up. I doubt google is keen on hardware vendors replacing google with Facebook in android.

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wingsabre said:
Apple designed the previous app with data from Google. If it was substandard, Apple designed it that way. Had Google provided the data for turn by turn, or flyover, Apple would still likely repeat their screw up with Maps.
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Wrong
 
sbojevets said:
"you can have my mapping app but i wont give you the turn-by-turn navigation feature on your iphone. it is an android-only feature i hope you understand."

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"oh you got your own mapping app now, cool. are we still friends? i'll like to be featured more on your iphone though. no hard feelings? i was just being competitive over the mapping app back then. silly me huh?"
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Fact check.

Apple forbid google from updating Maps, to make their map app look better on release.

We know how that turned out.

:apple:
 
I'd like a 5" iPhone. We'll see who Santa Claus visits first.

iPhone sells so well because it isn't FB or G. Reviewers who change phones every few weeks like Google. Normals get a better experience with just iPhone. Facebook is filling up with advertising and junk way faster than My Space & it will be gone, even quicker.

In the long term, people will go with the company that respects their privacy. Apple sells devices. FB & G sell their users. It's that simple.
 
Disappointed by the non-entertaining and blatantly evasive replies of the FB guys to a simple question from Kara. Seems pretty clear they asked for, were denied, and are still hopeful of finding a more favourable solution than that which they currently have.

That said, I'm not in fav of deeper integration of FB or Google unless I can flip a config switch and turn features on/off globally. Not being much interested in most (or very little) of what these companies have to offer and being more concerned with robust security than excessive social sharing, I much prefer their presence to be controlled over curated and vetted apps than deep integration.
 
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