What Facebook Should Steal From Microsoft’s Playbook

Re:What Facebook Should Steal From Microsoft’s Playbook by rickmode on Saturday January 15, 2011 @12:07PM (#2107263)

The Microsoft versus Facebook comparison is not apt.

Facebook takes something like a 50% cut of the money made by Zynga with their Facebook app.

Microsoft did not create a walled garden so did not have the opportunity to charge for running on their platform.

Software as a service and (to a lesser extent) the various app stores are different. The incentives are not the same.

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Re:What Facebook Should Steal From Microsoft’s Playbook by sewerhorse on Saturday January 15, 2011 @12:30PM (#2107325)

Facebook takes a 30% cut of Facebook Credits transactions. I believe that Zynga has negotiated that cut to be slightly smaller.

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