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Unless FB are considering making it impossible for others to access it's API, building a phone seems like a better deal for Facebook than it does for it's users.
I don't understand where they're coming from. Android's Facebook integration is a little rough, but all the problems are with the Facebook application. When it comes to the article's touted benefits of deep integration in the OS - calling a friend, deep syncing contacts, etc, Android does it all already. I have it set to only sync contacts that are already in my phone, but if a friend texts me who has their number on…
Awesome. Microsoft does search, Google does mobile OS, Apple does social networks, now Facebook does phones. Its an all out tech war.
Heed the warning folks, hire specialists or your startup will be making phones before you know it!
> Or rather, they’re building the software for the phone and working with a third party to actually build the hardware. Which is exactly what Apple and everyone else does, too. What? Apples and oranges. Apple designed the hardware, they're a hardware company. What TechCrunch?
But they outsource the actual manufacturing to FoxConn.
Like a Kindle just for one kind of activity - reading, it could something like an iPad with only one big app.
Seems line the history repeats itself and we're heading back to the future from an era of general web sites in a universal browser to a closed world of connected devices. ^_^
> Or rather, they’re building the software for the phone and working with a third party to actually build the hardware. Which is exactly what Apple and everyone else does, too. What? Apples and oranges. Apple designed the hardware, they're a hardware company. What TechCrunch?
Sounds like another Kin. I don't want Facebook integrated deeply with my phone that would be intrusive, it's there when I need it.
The thing is, everyone I know uses Facebook the website but hates Facebook the company. I don't see the Facebook brand selling phones (I recall they rated on the bottom of brands in some study).
I think a Facebook phone will be massively successful on name alone.