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361: ‘A Fit of Pique’, With Federico Viticci

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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Twitter Has Never Been Better Than Facebook

Twitter has always been the closest daring fireballs ever had to having comments. I think fundamentally that being a publicly held company that rose alongside Facebook which was so much more successful financially and at a very superficial level was therefore by the investors in the business class viewed through a face made Twitter to be viewed by investors through a Facebook prism yeah why can't you be more like Facebook? In the 90s when apple was in serious financial trouble and near bankruptcy and under threat to be acquired, Sun Microsystems didn't do it simply because they were pessimistic about any possible future for apple. Apple of all companies was licensing the mac operating system to clone makers again it sounds bananas if you're young enough or

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