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Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon

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Post by k-mcgrady »

pasbesoin wrote: post #19

Meta and/or OT: I simply don't believe public statements nor PR, any more. I seem to recall prior FB comments on this (PR or senior executives) being: We're not doing a phone. So... "strategic" and "protecting our interests" and "must maximize our value" and "timing" and... Lots of arguments for not giving a straight answer prior to this (even if that is "no comment"). However, with all the talk of "corporate personh…

From this article they still aren't doing a phone. HTC are doing a phone and Facebook is partnering with them to run a forked version of Android on it, which will obviously be integrated nicely with Facebook.

Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon

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Post by Mahn »

niggler wrote: post #25
Mahn wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Forget it, if there was a time when Facebook could have bought Twitter that might have been 4-5 years ago, but that ship sailed for good.

Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon

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Post by klox »

niggler wrote: post #25
Mahn wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Well considering they don't even have half of that in cash (even post-IPO) it would be an impressive proposition.

Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon

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Post by unclebucknasty »

Blech. No privacy concerns here.

This reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend a while back. She called me one day and I noticed that her photo had suddenly begun showing with her contact record on my phone. Thing is, it wasn't a photo from FB or any social networks, or anywhere else obvious that she could recall posting.

Now, we are both pretty tech, so I'm sure if we really wanted to sleuth it out we could have run it down. But, the point was that we are in this online space and it was non-obvious how this photo was being associated with her contact record on my phone.

I can only imagine how many unknown ways FB would get their hooks into someone carrying their phone.

As someone else mentioned, this has to be an early April Fool's joke.

Re: Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon

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Post by nuclear_eclipse »

jonursenbach wrote: post #22
niggler wrote: post #14

Earlier 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.

Pedantic correction: One billion people use their Facebook account every month. There are many more than that whose account is inactive, abandoned, or not used on a monthly basis.
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