Wow, they built this when their Facebook app on android still consumes an ungodly amount of system resources?
I have no faith in this from a technical perspective.
Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
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Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#62I do think replacing the launcher was a smart idea, but I'm just not sure if that kind of integration is useful in FB's case. Maybe I'm a minority, but I just don't route my life through FB and do not want to, at all. This only seems useful to people who exclusively use their phone for FB. Why would I want a layer of FB between me and the home screen where all my other apps live? The UI did look pretty slick, though…
Depends on what sort of permissions FB asks for on install. My suspicion is that they'll want everything they can get their hands on (location at a minimum). Eventually, they're going to want to replace your phonebook, etc. The sad thing is, people will just let them.
> Depends on what sort of permissions FB asks for on install.
That's the nice thing about being pre-installed on Android: there's no asking for permission.
(And you get access to SIGNATURE_OR_SYSTEM permissions, too.)
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#63My initial thoughts (without having a ton of time to really absorb this yet) is that Apple's closed operating system may have just become a liability. The open 'intent' model of Android is really at the core of making something like this possible. In turn though does this also allow Facebook to take over "too many" aspects of Android and cut into Google's revenue streams as well? All things I'm still pondering. As an…
You seem to assume this is something people want. This is just an app trying to take over the whole OS experience. Being closed system is a good thing in this case as I don't want facebook to change my OS experience. I like apps to behave like apps. In fact I would go as far as saying that this is one way Android could become sucky over time - Too many apps trying to push for a new experience.
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#64Facebook is touting Facebook Home as a "visually rich stream of media," but all it's going to turn out to be is a feed of filtered food and memes.
If you don't like what your friends post to Facebook then you should reconsider if you want to be friends with them, or if you should begin using the tools FB already provides to control the content in your feed.
Culling my friends still doesn't save me from seeing advertisements/promoted posts from services not even associated with them, and they shouldn't have to worry about liking something because it's going to spam me.
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#65Some serious lack of imagination on Facebook's part. They didn't go the hardware route since it is a lot of work. They didn't go the route of forking Android, since then they would have to partner with hardware manufacturers and that is a lot of work So what do they build instead? A deeply intrusive fork of their App that is not even going to be available on all Androids!
Seriously, this feels like people with broadband installing AOL.
sure sounds just like it. History repeats itself.
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't like what your friends post to Facebook then you should reconsider if you want to be friends with them, or if you should begin using the tools FB already provides to control the content in your feed.
or if you should begin using the tools FB already provides to control the content in your feed. Is this sufficient? What I want in my feed is likely very different then what I'd want on my phone's homescreen. Now you're getting into google circles territory and I'm not sure that level of curation really works well. The original point is still valid if its "There's a lot of crap in my feed that I'm okay with that I wo…
Most likely the answer here is a mix of your curation (i.e. don't ever show me content from this person that overshares) and Facebook's existing systems that learn, based on what you interact with intentionally and attentionally, what content available from all your friends will be the most interesting to serve to you at this exact moment.
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#67My initial thoughts (without having a ton of time to really absorb this yet) is that Apple's closed operating system may have just become a liability. The open 'intent' model of Android is really at the core of making something like this possible. In turn though does this also allow Facebook to take over "too many" aspects of Android and cut into Google's revenue streams as well? All things I'm still pondering. As an…
You seem to assume this is something people want. This is just an app trying to take over the whole OS experience. Being closed system is a good thing in this case as I don't want facebook to change my OS experience. I like apps to behave like apps. In fact I would go as far as saying that this is one way Android could become sucky over time - Too many apps trying to push for a new experience.
A good percentage of my friends spend 90% of their phone/tablet time inside of the Facebook app too. They don't use RSS or Twitter or go to actual websites. They just follow people or sites that post stuff, and then read it from Facebook. I can't see why they wouldn't want the Facebook app even more prominently featured.
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#68Considering the craptastic experience the regular FB app is on Android (seriously, visiting FB in the browser is a better experience), I feel a definite "meh" about this news.
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#69At $99, that's a great offer. I wonder if you can install ICS instead of FB Home.
I would take the unlocked $349 Nexus 4[1] over a $99 device with a two-year contract.
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16g...
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#70Facebook is betting that people don't want to interact with apps but rather with their friends, which is a bet they have to make because, well they're Facebook. This also sounds very good and "human" but I don't know how true to reality it is. Apps are a way to gauge and guide intent. So if I want to send an email, I open an email app. If I want to check my schedule, I open the calendar app. These are established and…
Yes, their whole "this is the future" strategy is actually that way because it needs to be the future for Facebook. So their view is extremely biased in that regards, just like the whole auto-sharing thing, which I consider pretty anti-user, but it's something Facebook needed for their business.