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IPhone, iPod Apps worth more then Facebook apps

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Um. Duh. Is this a surprise to anyone? Really? There are really otherwise bright people who think facebook apps are going to be bigger then iphone apps? Really? This is like saying dark blue is a darker blue then light blue. OF COURSE.

Think of the best thing a facebook app can do.

Now think of 100 places where your interaction with an aspect of your environment could have improved UI (in a broad sense of what UI is). Now think how easy it would be to replace the UI on everything with your iPhone. Now think about how much better the UI would be if it were as elegant as iPhone.

In one corner. FunWall. In another, the sci fi future we all spent our childhood dreaming about. This isn't a nailbiter, folks.

Like when a circle jerk is interrupted by an orgy, the facebook devs and their VCs are going to look stunned and out of place with their useless dicks in their hands when the real sex they aren't a part of starts.

statistics have shown that most of the facebook apps are either useless or fad. From a startup standpoint, you want to build apps that has acceptance and at the sametime monetized the service. I dont see that happening in facebook platform. Iam very positive users would be willing to pay for good apps on iPhone

Re: your last paragraph...I'm concerned. I think you need to step away from your computer and your iPhone and go out on a few dates. Shocking as it may seem, "real sex" is not an iPhone app. You'll understand what I mean, in time.

When I say "facebook apps are to iPhone apps as circle jerks are to orgies" I'm not actually saying iphone apps are orgies.

Shortly after people acquired the capacity to represent objects with words, they acquired a higher order of symbolic thought. One feature of this higher order language is analogy. Analogy is a way of talking about relationships between things in the same way that words are a way of talking about things. You pick four concepts, and structure them A is to B as C is to D. You use these concepts to compare the relationship AtoB and the relationship CtoD. If AtoB is less obscure, and CtoD is more obscure, analogy can be used to explain things.

Analogy works particularly well when one of the components is somehow linked to our drive for survival, because everyone relates to that. Sometimes, a writer will use analogy, but in a looser form. An implicit analogy.

I'm concerned you don't seem to understand this concept of analogy and implicit analogy.

In this case, the analogy gets bonus points because sex and iPhone apps are both (different) pretty pure expressions of universal evolutionary principles, while facebook and circlejerking are weaker in their evolutionary significance. In this way, my analogy conveys more then one meaning.

Also, and a more poetic level, real sex is everything because real sex breaks down the ego and then all thats left is everything.

Thanks for the lecture, LPTS. That was fascinating.

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