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I loved hearing Tim Cook's response about the incident "we would never put ourselves in the position of selling our user data". Fundamentally the Facebook business model was flawed & destined to fail. We hope the new generation of applications learn and evolve to better & stronger platforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkyH3JRxndc

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>Fundamentally the Facebook business model was flawed & destined to fail.

Is seems to be doing pretty well right now.

FB does not sell user data and Tim Cook knows this very well. Puzzling that he reduces himself to propagating such FUD.

Tim Cook never said that.

When asked what he would do if he were currently faced with the problems confronting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Cook said: "I wouldn't be in this situation."

They may not directly sell user data, but their revenue derives from leasing targeted access to end-users filtered by insights drawn from said data.

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