Apple and Facebook are Doomed (Again)

A "Spartacus" video game would be pretty cool. You could play as the slave-revolt leader, or Crassus. You could win as either. But what would the box art look like? This gamer in Kenya knows:

For example: the greatest-named game in the world.

There's also a GTA in which they just dropped the puppet from SAW:

By all means, favor them with a visit. If you tried yesterday and found it busy, it seems to be working today.

Speaking of Crassus: imagine if Bill Gates rose and army and invaded Iran to boost his chances of being President. Eyebrows would raise. That was Crassus. Writers of historical fiction akways have trouble with him; they can't get a handle on his personality. Never a fun-loving guy, let's just say that.

WEB Today's "Facebook is doomed" story comes from here:

We've really hit the apex of a non-taxing leisure society when people grow weary of something as minimally demanding as Facebook. I do wonder what comes next, though. Something simpler. Right now if you look at your Facebook page, it is possible to realize that you can safely ignore everything you're seeing. Forever. There has to be a way to minimize the chaff and make a few things seem essential.

It's hard to like them, unless you like their products or held their stock. Otherwise, such a punchable mug that company has. They make the wrong products - and people buy them! What manner of sorcery do they employ, exactly?

And flourished, because unlike most of the dim ugly nerd-caves, they made it look like a shoe store.

Hard to love a company that sinks money in its future, I know.

Again, it's almost impossible not to hate a company that does not make the fad product other companies are pumping out, and does not sell that non-product for the arbitrary price of $999.

By "open" he doesn't mean "accessible to the consumer," but "composed of open source code anyone can use to insert their products into the store, bypassing Apple completely." I think that's what he means. Unless he means you have to use the App Store and iTunes to get apps and media on your computer. Which you don't.

Apple isn't after market share. Apple is after profit. Two different things. But does her mean they are repeating the lesson of Microsoft, or their own behavior in the 80s and 90s?

Then it hits you: since everything so far was either inane or an inversion of reality, this is a parody. This is how people make fun of people who have Serious Theories about what Apple should - nay, must do. Whew.

Then you read on. Nope, he's serious. Some of them are mere wish-list items, some are hilariously trivial - Apple is too committed to PDF! - and others come with self-refuting graphics. Like, Apple should make this: