Add Jon Stewart to the long list of people baffled by the appeal of the “lame” photosharing app Instagram and why Facebook would pony up a billion dollars for it.
“A billion dollars of money?,” Stewart wondered. “For a thing that kind of ruins your pictures?”
He also weighed in on Google Glasses — which the internet has been having a lot of fun with — saying, “It’s like a nose-mounted version of the Google we love…the world’s largest database of people wizzing in public. But now, it will be like they’re peeing right in your eye.” About the guy in the video using the glasses on the street, he added, “In New York City, that motherf*cker is going to get hit by a car.” But then Daily Show senior youth correspondent Jessica Williams comes in and takes the old man to school.
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Additionally, Paypal co-founder Elon Musk was the guest on the show last night to discuss his space exploration projects…
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Seriously a billion dollars for a thing that runs your cell phone pictures through a sepia filter? Well I’m officially old because that shit sounds retarded to me.
I *kinda* get the business motives behind it the more I think about it, but I *kinda* don’t at the same time. That’s a goddamn shitload of money.
I don’t see anyway this is a straight cash deal. If it’s backloaded with options or some sort of paper that could be potentially worth a bill, I can almost see it. But straight cash homey? That’s ludicrous.
So, basically, an app made of a bunch of photoshop filters to be used so you can make your pics hipster got sold for 1 billion dollars?
All that investment on universities seems to be pointless.