I think people have reasons. I think their hesitance in relation to Facebook is not completely unwarranted. Mostly people are exaggerating anything I'm worried about, but, hardware owned by non-hardware companies is often tied into software platforms in really damn annoying ways.
To me that would be a legitimate concern with any non-hardware company purchase of a hardware company.
To me that would be a legitimate concern with any non-hardware company purchase of a hardware company.