Nonsense

Bookies Favor Apple for a Twitter Buyout

Ebay will buy Twitter, just after they sell of their last catastrophe.

Why Apple Should Buy Twitter

Jason ... I like you. You are almost bulletproof.

But damn, Apple buying Twitter is not only stupid, it will positively never, ever happen.

I repeat ... APPLE WILL N-O-T BUY TWITTER.

Apple is more capable to build a better Twitter at a fraction of the cost than to waste its money on this fad.

700 million. What the hell are you drinking.

Twitter Acquisition Mania: Google Rebuffed, Is Apple Trying Now?

Apple would never be so stupid as to buy Twitter. Apple would invent its own version of Twitter and bankrupt them.

RIM's Secret Weapon: Lower Bandwidth Consumption

All I have to say is to keep up the Nokiaspeak, RIM. Apple will let Balsillie and Kallasvuo (hell, and Balmer, too) talk themselves blue in the face about cooperation with carriers.

If fact, I hope Basillie and Kallasvuo serenade us EVEN MORE about joint music stores with operators, join application stores with operators, joint video stores with operators, joint bookstores with operators, cooperation on features in their phones, cooperation with billing, cooperation with branding ... please, by all means, keep it up.

Oh, and by all means, lets focus on network throughputs, network grooming, stipulations on over-the-air downloads, stipulations on tethering, limitations of over-the-air software upgrades, and do ratchet back voice over IP calling while you are at it. Just think how much the operator will save on this stuff? Don't stop there, invoke some physics, speed-to-hertz relationships, hey ... find a way to chip in Moore's Law, too.

Notice something? They just keep getting further and further and further away from the customer. They are trying to make the operator happy. They want to like each other.

Notice why Apple has so contentious relationships with everybody between them and the customer? Always arguing with the music labels, at odds with operators, unrelenting about who messes with their apps store, bitching matches about video coding, haranguing about DRM, who they will let sell their products, why they want the credit card numbers ... on and on and on. They are ruthless when it comes to these players in the value chain disrupting their relationship and understanding with the end consumer and their experiences.

Jobs will have none of it.

Customers want products and services designed .... FOR THEM, NOT OPERATORS. Operators keep telling us they know their customers better than company designs the products they use. Is that so?