Thursday, November 29, 2012

Facebook declaring war on Apple?

In an article on scientific american ("Facebook uses posters to push employees to switch to Android") pictures of  "war posters" are being pasted across their offices.

"After it was reported in August that Facebook employees were being "nudged, cajoled, and even ordered to give up their iPhones for Android devices," the social networking giant appears to be stepping up its campaign. Posters encouraging employees to "switch today" have begun appearing on the walls at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, according to a TechCrunch report."

The push is to encourage the Facebook employees to practice what they preach and make an effort to improve the inferior Android app. The irony of using the oldest form of marketing to "cajole" employees that work in the most cutting edge of marketing platforms is a bit ironic. 

I hope that they get their act together quickly since recent data showing 68.1% market share for Android and rising!


2 comments:

  1. I think the Android share is even higher and Facebook's app is pretty bad.

    It is fascinating that these giants are all at war with each other (Apple v Facebook, Facebook vs Google, Google vs Apple, Apple vs Microsoft, etc etc) as we see in many patent lawsuits, yet they are all in business with each other simultaneously!

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