And to think that Steve Jobs had named him as his natural heir. For genius and creativity, Mark Zuckerberg seemed the predestined of world high tech, the only one worthy of taking the place of the founder of Apple, died on October 5 last year.
And what does, in all gratitude, the young rampant creator of Facebook, the most loved social network on the planet? He starts to compete with the house of the bitten apple, already undermined in his leadership come on Samsung's Korean rivals.
And it is precisely with them that Zuckerberg would have liked to enter into a partnership to launch himself into mobile telephony, only to find an agreement with Taiwanese HTC. The code name of the new product, whose release is expected within 12 to 18 months, is “Buffy”, which takes its name from the famous vampire TV series.
Would the father of Facebook therefore want to suck the blood of competitors, including Apple? For now it is only known that the new smartphone will be equipped with an operating system Android, that of Google (competitor of Apple's iOS), however deeply adapted to the needs of the social network and its applications.
The idea, according to insiders, has been in the pipeline for a couple of years. In fact, the telephone market is still dominated by Apple and Google, while Facebook, despite its 800 million subscribers, still remains a simple application contained in the respective operating systems of the two giants, even if it is still by far the most downloaded.
Ma the king of internet 2.0 now wants to fully play the lion's share, going to penetrate a very profitable market, even if armored by the two current leaders.
The challenge is launched, in the face of mentor Steve Jobs…
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