Meta is going to reveal this guy is even worse than you ever imagined before. A phoney just like the 5 billion fake bot accounts across social media.
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Apple gonna pull your app off the store FB! Next take down Instagram!
On balance, I think ‘social’ media has done more harm than good… but its appearance was always inevitable in reality. Just like the smart phone. Apple did it best, first, but it was always going to happen.
Well, well this sounds like they should be kicked out of the App Store by Apple policy
Please apple, remove the facebook app from the apple store! ?
So how does 'the Zuck' suck money out of this, unless it's just about punishing Apple now. Can Zuck punish Apple enough to make Apple feel it?
Yeah, alright. People keep saying this over and over and over and Facebook and their other fleet of apps are more popular than ever.
I've yet to read of any sort of decline in active users. It isn't going to happen. Sadly.
I'm sure Zuck would haul Apple in front of every court they could to get Apple to stop, and shower Congress with even more money to get them to legislate Apple to stop. They with the most money seem to win in games of those kinds.
EDIT: Dislike all you want. Money does often 'sway', or seek to 'influence' the justice system'.
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But it's also never going to be acknowledged by 'the Zuck'. They could have lost 750,000 members, and they would be loath to let anyone know that they were losing.
No one can rival Facebook. It's firmly established with 2.91 billion monthly active users. No one can knock them off their perch. They have more power than most governments & should never have been allowed to get so dominant.
Facebook & Google have more power over what people can say and do than anything else on the planet. Both can silence and shut anyone down whenever they feel like it.
Agree - commenters often seem to struggle to separate the evil of Facebook's business model and practices from the real value the service brings to millions of people - the two aren't mutually exclusive. Saying "people should stop using Facebook" is too simplistic when so many people now have a dependence on it in their day-to-day lives (and I don't mean just watching cat videos). There are thousands of online communities, clubs, support networks, self-help groups enriching people's lives that probably wouldn't exist if FB wasn't a thing.
Accountants do this all the time with tax laws, find loopholes or trying to find ingenious ways so their clients pay no tax or as less as legally allowable. Facebook is doing no different to what accountants do on a daily basis which is to find ways to get around a problem.
With a whopping great dollop of smugness & self importance of its cretinous leader. ?
How is Facebook monetizing this? There's got to be something in this for them.
It’s so much fun coming here and reading comments when you work at the company the article is about and everyone loves to trash said company.
Facebook/Meta blames it‘s declining revenue on Apple. As for users, do we really know which are people and which are bots?
With all that has been going on, time to invest in popcorn stock.
Agree with this as well. The Marketplace pretty much blows Craigslist out of the water. The groups are as good as, if not better, than Reddit at times. If people would just realize that there is more to Facebook than politics, there are some pretty good groups on Facebook. I am a member of many Apple related groups on there for example.
I say this as a person who despises facebook's practices like...Cambridge Analytica.
Yeah! I mean - as soon as Tim makes it clear that the rules apply to ALL developers - except Amazon and a few others who have special deals.
Or maybe as soon as the EU makes it clear to Tim that „his“ rules violate the EU rules and charges Apple some millions, every day Apple continues to violate anti competitive rules.