Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera...
by Infinitesimus on Friday July 31, 2020 @02:38PM
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> This seems like a dumb move, why would MS want to get tied up in the horrors of social media when they have such a profitable empire.
First idea: Facebook's earnings over the past few years.
If this is true, it makes sense not from what MS is today but what they want to become.
Remember the I'm a Mac I'm a PC ads? MS was branded as uncool, boring and not creative and that mindset probably influenced a lot of Apple's adoption in the mobile space.
Microsoft wants to go where the money is and get the mindshare of younger generations who will have money to spend a few years down the line.
First idea: Facebook's earnings over the past few years.
If this is true, it makes sense not from what MS is today but what they want to become.
Remember the I'm a Mac I'm a PC ads? MS was branded as uncool, boring and not creative and that mindset probably influenced a lot of Apple's adoption in the mobile space.
Microsoft wants to go where the money is and get the mindshare of younger generations who will have money to spend a few years down the line.