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Originally Posted by grumpy
(Post 18975055)
Worst plan ever.
They know nothing about hardware
They know nothing about phones
They cant support it.
Shares will find 9.50 10.00 dollar region soon.
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They don't need to know anything about hardware.
They dont need to know anything about phones.
They don't need to support it.
But FB does have the capabilities to get to know what they need to know and how to support a phone if they absolutely have to.
And no, the shares will NOT ever hit below $19. Facebook would have to make an epic privacy gaffe or their server farms would have to get massively hacked for something like that to happen.
Here's my post from another Facebook bashing thread to "enlighten" those (specifically about the FB phone) who may not have the vision or patience to simply sit back for a sec and wonder why exactly Facebook got so huge, so fast.
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Originally Posted by eroticsexxx
(Post 18969942)
Two of the major possible options:
1. FB + RIM = Facebook teams up with or buys RIM to inject new life into their phone line, which has been weak for the past 3 years. The ex-Apple designers that FB hired only have to come up with a decent hardware solution as QNX is a solid OS with huge potential.
Established channels of distribution/mobile provision for the phones plus the advantage of the secure BB platform would make this the best option. Add to that the potential licensing of the BB Platform to Android phone developers and Apple and there would be a near instantaneous resurgence of RIM's market share.
2. FB + Microsoft = Facebook and MS already are tied at the hip with Skype and Bing integration. Window Phones already have distribution channels set up, so a partnership in this regard makes sense. Although it must be said that the RIM partnership would be stronger. Windows phones aren't being forecast to have a strong demand this year given that the iphone 5 may be coming out in October.
The critics who are pushing that this is the end of FB aren't thinking analytically and are forecasting a worst-case scenario of FB trying to do it all by themselves. Zuckerberg only got $16 Billion out of the IPO, so to create a new phone line from scratch would be idiotic. Zuckerberg didn't get this far by not thinking carefully and thoroughly about his business steps.
FB hatred has blinded quite a few pundits and it's showing.
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Both of those possibilities offer FB the freedom to not have to worry about having to come up with a phone manufacturing company from scratch.
Guess what though, if they decide not to release a phone at all, that's okay as well. Although their ongoing mission to put FB as an embedded part of electronic components everywhere will be severely stunted temporarily.
It's hilarious to see the reactions here, when on Wall Street (in certain circles) they anticipated this and aren't worried at all.
I thought that adult stayed on the cutting edge, but here some can't even recognize genius when it's right in front of them. On forums like this I see many gripes about FB and the portions of it that involve teenagers and families. C'mon, that's THEIR world in FB.
In other words, when you as an adult join FB, the experience is what YOU make it. If you have idiot friends or weird family members who post idiotic and/or useless stuff, then you have complete control to unfriend, avoid and even block that person altogether.
Anyway, I can only laugh.:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
