Near the end of the screencast they show "send to mobile".
It then appears they show you the Apple App Store.
This could lead to easier app discovery.
Facebook launches App Center
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#13introducing: an app store inside an app you got from an app store!
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#14introducing: an app store inside an app you got from an app store!
As silly as it seems, I think there's tremendous power in that concept. For a lot of people Facebook is one of the few apps in use. Providing apps inside Facebook sounds like a great way to capture the audience Apple is missing out on.
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#15Maybe this will be MySpace 2.0 after all.
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#16I don't get the point of this.
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#17"The App Center will begin rolling out to people in the U.S. today"
What is up with Facebook and US-only products? Their Camera app is not available in most countries. Even their app for managing Pages isn't available in my app store (they still keep showing me the annoying message to download it). And it takes them literally order of magnitude of months (if ever) to get their products worldwide, like with Facebook check-ins.
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#18i think the app center could change everything for startups like YOU. facebook gets millions of eyeballs a day. with these eyeballs fb has the power to pick winners and losers for what appears before your eyes.
just like the itunes did for apple.
just imagine if your startup is fb's "promoted website of the week for travel", the possibilities are endless for you.
all of this is of course moot, if fb doesn't promote their app center. as long as they promote it, offer discounts (the way amazon does for their appstore with their "free paid app a day", i think fb could change the way startups are promoted on the web. (itunes already does some of this for the pure mobile play.)
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#19"The App Center will begin rolling out to people in the U.S. today" What is up with Facebook and US-only products? Their Camera app is not available in most countries. Even their app for managing Pages isn't available in my app store (they still keep showing me the annoying message to download it). And it takes them literally order of magnitude of months (if ever) to get their products worldwide, like with Facebook c…
its not just Facebook with us-only or us-first products. i believe it has to do with legal issues with other countries.........or good old beta testing
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#20Am I reasonable in finding it incredibly amusing that the example in half the screen shots of this announcement are of pinterest?
You are reasonable. It's even more interesting considering the nosedive Facebook's taking that they'd purposefully abuse the presence of another for marketing purpose.
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