Apple reportedly in talks to buy Pinterest competitor The Fancy

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  • Reply 61 of 69
    quadra 610quadra 610 Posts: 6,757member

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    Originally Posted by Harbinger View Post




    My point is not that it is not Apple that has it wrong, but those who are touting this speculative acquisition.


     



     


     


    Ah, I misunderstood. My bad.

  • Reply 62 of 69
    gazoobeegazoobee Posts: 3,754member

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    Originally Posted by Harbinger View Post




    What would they use it for? *General* e-commerce?  There are better acquisition targets with greater footprints than Fancy.



     


    No, that would be the exact wrong strategy.   If they bought a bigger player like WalMart, Amazon, etc. they could be charged with being monopolists for starters.  They'd also attract the very bottom of the market because the bigger players deal in the cheap deals and bulk purchases.  A huge decaying infrastructure comes with the purchase usually.  


     


    Instead they are buying a "cool" new entrant which is definitely up-market (at least for now).  The smaller company is more nimble, has less cruft to throw out etc. 


     


    If Apple's eCommerce bid is sucessful, the "big players" would eventually also have to accept the iPhone as a payment method in the end anyway.  

  • Reply 63 of 69
    harbingerharbinger Posts: 570member

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    Originally Posted by Gazoobee View Post


     


    No, that would be the exact wrong strategy.   If they bought a bigger player like WalMart, Amazon, etc. they could be charged with being monopolists for starters.  They'd also attract the very bottom of the market because the bigger players deal in the cheap deals and bulk purchases.  A huge decaying infrastructure comes with the purchase usually.  


     


    Instead they are buying a "cool" new entrant which is definitely up-market (at least for now).  The smaller company is more nimble, has less cruft to throw out etc. 


     


    If Apple's eCommerce bid is sucessful, the "big players" would eventually also have to accept the iPhone as a payment method in the end anyway.  





    If I am not mistaken, Apple has always made acquisitions to gain technology and talent, but never to gain access to content or membership lists. Fancy offers virtually nothing in technology and there's nothing spectacular about its talent (creating social websites is not that hard). So I really don't see it.


     


    If Apple were to acquire a digital wallet player, Square makes more sense, particularly given its alleged interest in Twitter.  Same founder. Really cool concept.

  • Reply 64 of 69
    antkm1antkm1 Posts: 1,441member


    Although I agree that the "Social" aspect is a VERY important thing to the success of any tech company, but I think Apple would do better focusing on partnerships rather than aquisitions.


    I think Pinterest is way too established now for apple to get into the game.  Unless we see a migration like we did from Myspace to Facebook, I really don't think aquiring a company like Fancy would benefit Apple all that much.


    They could be planning to create a road-map-like strategy similar to the up-coming mapping service though.  I do agree that "Ping" should have taught them something about just establishing digital social networking, and maybe they have something planned with Fancy.  I will be interesting to see what happens.  I kind of hope it doesn't happen, I'd rather see Apple focus on improving their existing ecosystem to make it even better than it is now.  But that's off topic.

  • Reply 65 of 69
    lamewing wrote: »
    If Apple buys this will they artificially limit its ability to run on only the most current version of their hardware? Cough....cough....Siri...

    Well you just let the Apple users worry about stuff like that.
  • Reply 66 of 69
    harbinger wrote: »

    Why would we assume that are not doing just that?

    What would we assume they can't walk and chew gum?

    Apple only has enough capital to do one thing at a time. Therefore, if they are working on a new acquisition, they can't possibly be working on a new Mac Pro. The Mac hardware engineers would be too busy on the acquisition deal.
  • Reply 67 of 69
    antkm1antkm1 Posts: 1,441member

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    Originally Posted by logandigges View Post



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    Have you noticed this?


    I think that's where the confusion over the name comes from.  The website titles itself "Fancy"...guessing it was created in the UK.


    BUT, the URL is: http://www.thefancy.com/...Probably because www.fancy.com was already taken.

  • Reply 68 of 69
    melgrossmelgross Posts: 33,625member
    With all the talk about this, I just thought it would be interesting to ask some of my usual test subjects what they thought of the site. Those test subjects that I was able to ask, consisted of my daughter, three other young women, and one male friend who were here yesterday. They are all between 19 and 22 years of age.

    They all use this site, and occasionally buy something it points to. I hadn't even heard of it before this rumor came out. Whether this means anything or not, I can't say, but I thought it was interesting.
  • Reply 69 of 69
    I know, I was just trying to make people not be retards and believe me that it is called "Fancy" not "The Fancy", If it was available, my website would be logan.me, but it's not.
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