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FB Smartphones?
- Thread starter PinkPatty
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cmybliss
Android Enthusiast
Personally, I would never buy this. Don't get me wrong, fb is fine for what it is, a social site. I use it to keep up with friends and family I don't see often. (when I say friends, I mean people I know and actually care about in real life.) However, I don't feel comfortable giving them an all access pass to my life. I don't use any of the fb apps. That means no events, no family groups or whatever they call them, ect. Nor do I let it since on my phone. So, I'll pass on this one, but if others like the idea, enjoy.
zuben el genub
Extreme Android User
Oh, Lordy!!!!
Crashdamage
Android Expert
+1. The End must be near. Is there anything more subtly evil than FB?
In my humble opinion, it is a dumb move. People are not going to buy a smart phone for just one single app or one single interface.
Microsoft has been trying to tie XBOX Live with their Windows phones and yet they have hard time selling their phones. Frankly, I think XBOX Live integration is far more useful than Facebook integration. Besides, the current Facebook app is working just fine.
If Facebook is going to introduce any phone, they will be competing with the low end smart phones and not the high end smart phones.
Microsoft has been trying to tie XBOX Live with their Windows phones and yet they have hard time selling their phones. Frankly, I think XBOX Live integration is far more useful than Facebook integration. Besides, the current Facebook app is working just fine.
If Facebook is going to introduce any phone, they will be competing with the low end smart phones and not the high end smart phones.
But this time around the rumor has much more meat to it, thanks to a report in The New York Times. The report deals how Facebook has hitched up with Taiwan's HTC Corp. (TPE:2498) to make a phone code-named "Buffy". HTC will develop the hardware while Facebook would develop the software.
According to a Facebook employee, they were briefed that the company had snared "half a dozen" former engineers on Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone team and an engineer from the iPad team to help with the project.
With rival social networks like Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Google+ gaining some traction, social networking giant Facebook is reportedly eyeing becoming an OS developer as a way to more tightly integrate its network to mobile devices and avoid just being another web firm.
DailyTech - Report: Facebook to Launch Phone "By Next Year", Eyes HTC Purchase
Building an OS from the ground up sounds difficult.
According to a Facebook employee, they were briefed that the company had snared "half a dozen" former engineers on Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone team and an engineer from the iPad team to help with the project.
With rival social networks like Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Google+ gaining some traction, social networking giant Facebook is reportedly eyeing becoming an OS developer as a way to more tightly integrate its network to mobile devices and avoid just being another web firm.
DailyTech - Report: Facebook to Launch Phone "By Next Year", Eyes HTC Purchase
Building an OS from the ground up sounds difficult.
Microsoft has experience in this market.. and a war chest to help them... but still cant get a good traction.
WebOS / Palm tried and died...
RIM is circling the toilet rim...
with starting a new OS.. and the ECO system to support it and clients with services and apps. I dont think FB can!
they are going to waste valuable resources trying to get into this market... and fail.
they should invest in what they do best and making their social service more effective and better. so that Google and Apple and others will be forced to use it in their systems.
WebOS / Palm tried and died...
RIM is circling the toilet rim...
with starting a new OS.. and the ECO system to support it and clients with services and apps. I dont think FB can!
they are going to waste valuable resources trying to get into this market... and fail.
they should invest in what they do best and making their social service more effective and better. so that Google and Apple and others will be forced to use it in their systems.
PinkPatty
Newbie
Yeah, Fb is good in social sites and they're really own the spot. Maybe Mark wants to ventures for other possible ways to earn and keep FB to be gian like Google. who knows?!
Yes, my thought was Fb is looking for expansion and attract possible new customers and earn more and more!
LOL
haha!
What I see they want to mimic Google's move. Introducing more apps related to facebook!
Yeah I read it also!
Mark is thinking if he won't do new for now, facebook will be like friendster and other social networking that don't last. They need to offer new!
yes.. offer new.. fresh service and things that bloggers would like to use and see.
why would anyone want a phone from them? when android, apple, etc.. have fb service on their phones
using their resources.. wasting it on a battle they can not possibly win.
their attention will be on the wrong battle...
while google, MS, apple, etc will move in on their social service.
when FB finally take notice.. it will be too late!!
less than 10yrs.. they will be like myspace...
why would anyone want a phone from them? when android, apple, etc.. have fb service on their phones
using their resources.. wasting it on a battle they can not possibly win.
their attention will be on the wrong battle...
while google, MS, apple, etc will move in on their social service.
when FB finally take notice.. it will be too late!!
less than 10yrs.. they will be like myspace...
zuben el genub
Extreme Android User
Read an article - FB won't be truly successfully until everyone's on. There was a hint to get us old farts up to speed. The article had a nice rebuttal from someone who had networked from the old BBS days. He had quite a few comments about FB's revelancy. I am not sociable - and groups that need a registration per group and stay on the topic work better in my book.
BTW - Friendster and Grouply got themselves banned from quite a few Yahoo groups
BTW - Friendster and Grouply got themselves banned from quite a few Yahoo groups
!on
Android Expert
Stuff farcebook! I hate everything it stands for. It is still a novelty (imo) & is probably the most used app on an iphone (again, imo). The good thing about google is it holds the information you want it to have. farcebook IS evil, they change things without asking, & are blatantly about harvesting personal info for the benefit of marketing. And yet the kids still fall for it. When will they learn? There are other social networking apps out there, many are based on interests. Tbh I think some peoples only hobby is farcebook.