Will It Exit?
The effervescent Kara Swisher over at All Things Digital has a neat follow-up to an article from last October about how Zukerberg’s much vaunted Facebook platform has simply allowed inane zit popping apps to flourish and further dilute any real business model.
“But, so far, as popular as those apps have become, what Zuckerberg and the widget-makers have wrought is mostly silly, useless and time-wasting and the kazillion users of these widgets are pretty much just acting like little children.
I never thought I would call the often frivolous AOL (TWX) back in the day–very simply, a Neanderthal version of Facebook–a mature offering in comparison…
And if that is all there is, can Facebook really build a viable and long-lasting business on what is essentially a bunch of games that will ultimately become wearying for users? Doesn’t it need more robust apps that actually are useful and relevant and make Facebook the service that Zuckerberg has often told me was a ‘utility’?
While Facebook–with a cleaner and more strict look and a better navigation–is surely less goofy than rival MySpace (NWS) for anyone over 12 years old, and its video, photo and email features are nice, the vast majority of its apps are still mostly as dumb as a box of hammers.”
I Faced-Up and Faced-Off sometime ago tired of only every receiving invitations to bite, bleed or prod from the half-dead and lycanthropes.
I love a chart so here is one:
If the iPhone App Store goes this route I’ll eat my £289 handset and in the manner of Will It Blend? begin a new video viral series entitled Will It Exit?
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