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

[Steve121178]

Dear Apple,

We are very well-known companies who make money by selling ads. We would like to make a lot more money on your iOS platform without actually offering you anything in return. Of course, there is a risk that your users will hate you for allowing us to do this. But that risk is yours to take of course.

Will you bite?

Regards,
Marc and Eric

Yes, but if the iPhone begins to offer a poorer Facebook experience compared to rival phones the people hooked on Facebook will start buying non-iOS products. It's that simple.

Apple needs Facebook & Google a lot more than they need Apple. People need to understand this!

 

[s00nertp]

Facebook = please die

Facebook can go away forever and I will not care at all.

Every time I've used it, it made me feel like a too much of my time was wasted.

Twitter is even worse.

 

[22hand]

Why don't Apple just acquire Waze...

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At AllThingsD's mobile conference today, executives from both Google and Facebook said they would like to have deeper and more extensive integration with Apple's iOS -- and both would like to be featured more prominently in the operating system, though neither company seemed to think such a development was very likely.

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Google chairman Eric Schmidt, according to CNET, spoke today about Google and Apple's interactions related to apps:
While of course Google wants to be featured more on iOS, it seems the company has accepted Apple's decision to develop its own mapping app.

Talking about Facebook's rollout of Chat Heads and other features in its iOS app today, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer and mobile head Cory Ondrejka were repeatedly asked by Kara Swisher if Facebook had ever actually asked Apple if it could have Chat Heads appear universally throughout iOS, like it does on Facebook Home.

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Apple does have deeper ties with Facebook than most companies, offering significant integration of the service into iOS, but building Chat Heads into the iPhone would be an unprecedented expansion of that relationship.

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[thefourthpope]

I want less integration especially with FB. What we need is software to block tracking and collecting data by companies like FB. Google isn't much better but at least they don't try and force themselves as much as Facebook does.

It doesn't matter if you are a facebook user or not - they are the absolute picture of what is wrong with the modern media world.

If they become more integrated with IOS then I may just go to a dumb phone again. I can't stand them. Mark Z wants to rule the world.

Apple stand up for yourself and for your users. If people want to be in the facebook world let them get a facebook phone and leave the rest of the world alone.

I assume you have similar complaints re: Siri?

 

[wingsabre]

No, no, no... Google held up Apple for more money/customer data to get access to that data. Remember Apple PAID for Google Maps data... They did not get it for FREE. Google wouldn't let Apple have the same features in Apple's maps that Android maps got for the same money changing hands.

Worse Apple paid TWICE because iOS users were the largest share of Mobile Google Maps users.... And all that 5 YEARS of usage went to Google... When Apple could have been using that for building their system.

You can't blame Google for Apple's poor choices. Just because they didn't take advantage of 5 years of user experience does not make it Google's fault. They had a deal with Google, and when they wanted to add turn by turn they should have either negotiated another deal. I would have been fine with their tom tom maps without turn by turn for a year, and then roll it out as iOs6.5 or iOS7.

 

[roxxette]

- Not many people want to have those stupid chat heads floating around all the time or popping out of nowhere.

- Not many people want to chat all the time or care about fb.

- Not many people want to have their activity tracked specifically by google.

- Keep google and fb off of iOS as much as possible, please.

- I love iOS map. It hasn't fail me and my wife since we started using it. We don't want google to track us for their ad business. So, iOS map is good for us. We will never go back to google map, even if iOS map will never be as good, but we all know it's not true. iOS map will be as good if not better in time.

You do know they dont force you to use facebook right ? Just like they dont with the current fb integration on iOS....

Apple maps will get better ? So do you think that google maps will remain the same and will stop to update/improve and include new features

 

[imageWIS]

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.

Try using Apple maps to navigate using the NYC subway...

 

[nia820]

Uh, if Apple wanted to put iTunes on Android, they would be totally welcome.

Ditto. I've invested so much into itunes store I would love to have all my movies and season passes on my note 2.

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I don't understand this need to have Facebook intergrated at all. This new fb integration looks alot like a 'beefed up' notification section in the OS.

This would be useful if it could be used by all apps, then the user could choose there own mobile phone experience depending on the apps they download.

Because people obsessed with updating mundane things about their. People are narcissistic to the max. That's why facebook integration is so important.

 

[DeepIn2U]

At AllThingsD's mobile conference today, executives from both Google and Facebook said they would like to have deeper and more extensive integration with Apple's iOS -- and both would like to be featured more prominently in the operating system, though neither company seemed to think such a development was very likely.

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Google chairman Eric Schmidt, according to CNET, spoke today about Google and Apple's interactions related to apps:
While of course Google wants to be featured more on iOS, it seems the company has accepted Apple's decision to develop its own mapping app.

Schmidt ... declined to say why Apple decided to go with its own mapping system rather than working with Google as it had in the past. But he said his company is still pushing Apple to use Google Maps as the primary navigation tool on iOS.

"We would still really like them to use our maps," Schmidt said. "It would be easy for them to take the app in the store and put it as their basic one."

Eric Schmidt = Self Service Greedy Evil bastard!

FRAK you! I cannot wait for an injustice hearing in the USA that breaks up Google! (yes I'm dreaming - deeply, but it almost happened to Microsoft and many here thought that would never occur before Gates invested large sums along with non-voting shares into Apple upon discussions with Steve Jobs coming back.

 

[tranceking26]

You mean, the end user that can have apps that are integrated with Siri? (Which is possible if you jailbreak...)...or the end user that can have notifications the way they want? Or a lock screen that displays relevant info? Or an app that can play audio from video in the background when not in use like youtube used to? Or a custom webbrowser?

Oh wait. Apple doesn't allow any of that for no apparent reason. My bad.

what are you rabbiting on about. completely unworthy of quotation.