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Re:The Silicon Valley VC Disease by mattmaroon on Saturday July 26, 2008 @11:39PM (#257996)
What Hornik says seems 100% obvious. iPhone is still a tiny percentage of the market. That said, they're disproportionately likely to use the web and apps I would think.

But still, you have all of the negatives you do with Facebook Apps (capricious overlords in total control of your fate) but with something like 5% of the user base. And while iPhone users are clearly more engaged with that platform than, say, Win Mo users, they're nowhere close to Facebook users.

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Re:The Silicon Valley VC Disease by fourlittlebees on Sunday July 27, 2008 @12:18AM (#258019)
iPhone has the App Store, through iTunes, and is already demonstrating that people will pay money to install those apps on their phones. Facebook apps plan to make money how exactly?
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Re:The Silicon Valley VC Disease by mattmaroon on Sunday July 27, 2008 @01:25PM (#258284)
Some Facebook apps are making a killing. There are a number of ways to monetize other than low paying cpc ads.
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Re:The Silicon Valley VC Disease by fourlittlebees on Monday July 28, 2008 @01:43PM (#259321)
The "killing" that they are making is by running ads for OTHER Facebook apps. Isn't that just passing the VC around?
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Re:The Silicon Valley VC Disease by kaiserama on Sunday July 27, 2008 @10:45AM (#258213)
Blackmail? Haha...wait...that's not a bad idea.
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