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But unlike Google, which had to embrace Facebook, and has its own social media platform, Apple doesn’t have such luxuries. It’s social media partner needs to be benign.
And unlike Facebook, Rubin reminds us, Twitter isn’t an app platform either, which would otherwise present another huge point of contention and competition for Apple. Facebook debuted its open graph platform earlier in the year. It’s a veritable call to arms for developers to weave their apps into Facebook’s very fabric. With Facebook’s single API, developers are able to integrate their apps into Ticker, Timeline, Newsfeed and other high-visibility areas of Facebook’s interface.
And there’s yet another pain point for Apple: Facebook is threaded deeply into Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS, another competitor, albeit a smaller one. There’s also the little matter of Microsoft’s major investment into Facebook via Bing search integration, a partnership that could have Apple wary of Facebook’s bedfellows.
But beyond ties to other competitors, the biggest warning sign for Apple could lie in the very stuff that makes Facebook what it is: data.
“User data tends to flow into Facebook easily,” Gartner Research analyst Michael Gartenberg told me. “But it doesn’t tend to come back out as easily.” Imagine the rich treasure trove of data derived from millions of new Macs if Facebook were integrated with Mountain Lion. While the increased ability to share could improve the Mac experience for users, it would also bolster Facebook’s vast stockpile of data. With richer data comes better opportunity for targeted advertising.
And with more ad dollars, Facebook grows into and even stronger force to be reckoned with.
Add to that rumors of a Facebook phone in the works, and Apple doesn’t need any more reason to strengthen its competitor.
So in the end, Apple is left with only Twitter, or what Gartenberg calls “more of a news service for information dissemination.” Now, of course, all of this could change when Mountain Lion makes its public debut come summer time. Apple and Facebook could reach an agreement to bring full Facebook integration to OS X, just as they almost did with iTunes Ping. It’s proof that the companies are talking, and have reached at least some terms of agreement in the past. Perhaps another detente is on the horizon.
Or perhaps Apple, as typical, will keep doing its own thing.
Facebook and Apple declined to comment for this article.
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