When I Get A New iPhone…
Martin Varsavsky
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Martin Varsavsky
Chairman of Inception Prelude Fertility, Overture and Gameto. MVB Fund, CEO of Jazzya.
…The first thing I do is download all the cool apps. Second thing I do is move all the non erasable apps made by Apple to a folder called “don’t bother”.
What I don’t understand is this: if Apple can’t make good apps, with the $150 billion in cash that Apple has, why don’t they just buy them? If Google and Facebook spend billions on apps, why doesn’t Apple do the same? They should have bought Instagram, Waze, and many others. Why don’t they ever compete to buy key chunks of the mobile experience? Apple must be able to combine it’s unrivaled money making skills with equally good money investing skills.
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10 年Great question, Martin Varsavsky . Recently, I was comparing acquisitions by Apple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple), acquisitions by Google (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Google) and of course, acquisitions by Facebook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Facebook). I think there is a similar pattern in acquisitions by Apple and FB. They are buying mostly kind of "back-office" technologies, not rivals or possible rivals (like Google). Yeah, FB and their acquisition of WhatsApp was kind for "glitch in that perfect matrix of acquisitions" but no more disruptions like that so far. Acquisitions by Google, that's the different story. They are buying aggressively and more importantly, secretly. Yeah, we heard finally, that They bought Picasa and YouTube, but there are so many interesting acquisitions before and after this big ones. So, different strategy is involved with Google, thought. Apple and FB, they want to keep the core and kind of outsource the other (like Instagram in case of both). Both know how to work with other companies well. And both know, that the Instagram can't stand just on its own, without the space on FB and the place in Apple's products. Thanks for Your thoughts.
Entrepreneur, CEO of a Marketing, SEO, & Facebook Ad Agency: PhilGrahamDigital.com
11 年I don't see this as a big deal. Apple owns the platform, they don't need to make the best app for every category because of that. Many of the Apple apps aren't that great (Maps, Podcast, etc) and it is kind of silly you can't delete them, but I don't mind putting them in a folder and moving them to the last screen on my phone.
I just finally gave in and bought a smart phone...now all I have to do is squeeze in some time between my entanglement models to figure out to create a folder...lol.... Apple is getting to something to avoid like we used to avoid extra Microsoft stuff!
Inside Sales Manager at J. Lanfranco Fastener Systems
11 年While not a lover of Apple / iOS ecosystem, I can't help but admit that the 'stock' apps you get on an iPhone are better quality than the 'stock' apps you get on Android.
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11 年I totally and completely agree!