That mockup is fucking ridiculous.
how so?
It's an iPhone 5 with the touch buttons added.
Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon
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Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I honestly don't know anyone who actually likes Facebook. My group of friends and I continue to use it because there just isn't any better way for us to stay in touch at scale on a day-to-day basis, and nobody really cares enough to put up with the fragmentation that moving to a different network would cause. So it's in this weird middle ground of being too important to give up outright, but not important enough to b…
"I honestly don't know anyone who actually likes Facebook." That's the thing I've never understood. On the one hand, on the nightly news Facebook is discussed as if everyone has an account (and that privacy changes actually matter to most viewers). On the other hand, none of my close friends use facebook.
Stop living in a vacuum. One billion people have a Facebook account. It's possible that your close friends are not in that group, but the average person on Earth does, in fact, use Facebook.
Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I honestly don't know anyone who actually likes Facebook." That's the thing I've never understood. On the one hand, on the nightly news Facebook is discussed as if everyone has an account (and that privacy changes actually matter to most viewers). On the other hand, none of my close friends use facebook.
Stop living in a vacuum. One billion people have a Facebook account. It's possible that your close friends are not in that group, but the average person on Earth does, in fact, use Facebook.
"One billion people have a Facebook account." " the average person on Earth does, in fact, use Facebook."
The population of the earth exceeds 7B (http://www.census.gov/population/popclockworld.html) so in fact the average person on Earth does not use facebook
*unless you live in a vacuum where 1/7 counts as half
Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon
#24That's like a Facebook tracking multiplied by carrier tracking? Super big brother %) Who would buy that?
Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't forget that Facebook owns Instagram as well. My non-tech friends (most of them) use exactly 2 apps regularly on their phones. Facebook and Instagram. I'm not sure any of them would jump at a Facebook branded phone, but I think a phone with Instagram in mind as the key feature (e.g. an awesome camera, integrated filters, not sure what else) might strike a chord with some of my friends. EDIT: Almost forgot about…
> if Facebook owned Vine, they would have the holy trinity of apps. Just for the record, Vine belongs to Twitter, so don't count on that happening any time soon :)
"don't count on that happening any time soon :)"
If Facebook offered 20B for Twitter, would Dorsey et al sell?
Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon
#26Google's going down.
Sure, because when I need information, I think "I'll Facebook it". rolls eyes
Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I honestly don't know anyone who actually likes Facebook." That's the thing I've never understood. On the one hand, on the nightly news Facebook is discussed as if everyone has an account (and that privacy changes actually matter to most viewers). On the other hand, none of my close friends use facebook.
>none of my close friends use facebook I'd say you're lucky. Most of my friends use Facebook. I refuse, so I'm out of touch with most of them. I figure if we aren't willing to keep in touch in other ways, our friendship isn't holding up very well anyway.
I like (the seemingly lost practice of) calling and meeting friends face-to-face
Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon
#28Personal disclosure - I'm not interested in a Facebook phone in the slightest (mostly for privacy concerns). I think this is an interesting concept. Let's assume it is in fact a total fork of Android, in essence, a "Facebook Phone". I really think (as big as Facebook is) they will have a hard time with this. I'm not sure there is space for another type of device - even if it is a massive consumer brand. I get the sen…
We know that people don't like social login buttons because they believe using them will cause stuff to be posted on their behalf. I can imagine the same fear with buying a Facebook phone. "Jill just chatted with Tom, they discussed their sex life."
Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon
#29Perhaps it's a bit paranoid to say this, but note that we are dangerously close to April 1st.
I was thinking this exactly. This actually looks like an April Fool's headline/article.
Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stop living in a vacuum. One billion people have a Facebook account. It's possible that your close friends are not in that group, but the average person on Earth does, in fact, use Facebook.
"One billion people have a Facebook account." " the average person on Earth does, in fact, use Facebook." The population of the earth exceeds 7B ( http://www.census.gov/population/popclockworld.html ) so in fact the average person on Earth does not use facebook *unless you live in a vacuum where 1/7 counts as half
You have to factor in the number of people who have regular internet access though.