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by mattmaroon 6533 days ago
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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fourlittlebees 6533 days ago
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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mattmaroon 6532 days ago
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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fourlittlebees 6531 days ago
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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kaiserama 6532 days ago
Blackmail? Haha...wait...that's not a bad idea.
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