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Re: Facebook Home

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Post by leephillips »

canibanoglu wrote: post #134

Ok here's my two cents. -It does look great. But I'm also curious as to what will happen if my friends are not good photographers. How about when they post pictures of what they have eaten? -I most likely take my phone out of my pocket more than a hundred times each day, they got that part right. Sometimes I just use the phone screen to check the date and time. Sometimes to check if someone has called me or texted me…

"How about when they post pictures of what they have eaten? [...] It's very rare that I take my phone out of my pocket to check up on friends through social media."

If your friends are posting pictures of what used to be something that they've eaten, it's not surprising that you rarely want to check up on that stuff.

Re: Facebook Home

#143

Post by bherms »

eric-hu wrote: post #138
grecy wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree, though is it actually much different from say http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/ ?

I would say it is. A hero animation carries much more information than a single image does.

for anyone else interested in what approach they were using for it:

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Re: Facebook Home

#145

Post by jjsz »

I wouldn't give >1% of my battery power to an app like this, especially coming from Facebook. Back when I used the Facebook app and Facebook it drained too much of the battery.

Now if feedly launches something like this, where the photos and content come from RSS feeds, you can sign me up for beta testing. You could take over and kill Chameleon, Apex, Go, and Trebuchet easily.

Re: Facebook Home

#146

Post by eggnet »

tg3 wrote: post #22

The greatest benefit of a facebook phone to me has nothing to do with photos, status updates, etc (although I am likely in the minority). Facebook, to me, has become an address book of all of my friends, with contact information that updates itself when it changes. If facebook replaced my address book with my facebook friends list, and texting and calling to them "just worked", hopefully using facebook-to-facebook ov…

You can do that with the current facebook android app, in theory. I haven't tried it, but it claims to be able to do it.

Re: Facebook Home

#147

Post by kyrias »

Sodaware wrote: post #40
danso wrote: post #8

To echo a complaint that is common when designers show off prototypes/imagined-redesigns...what does all this look like when your friends aren't as attractive/good at photography? I'm talking about the Cover Feed function. In the life stage I am now, I'd say that my Facebook Phone would be showing random baby photos 80% of the time, food photos 10% of the time. I'm also curious how that feature interacts with what I'…

Don't forget all the "Like if you hate cancer, ignore if you love Hitler" pictures. Then again, marketing doesn't really work when you show the reality of the product. The Wii probably wouldn't have sold as well if the ads showed people slouched on the couch in their underwear rather than fit, active people with Big White Smiles.

s/Smiles/Smiles™/

Re: Facebook Home

#149

Post by gpmcadam »

rhizome wrote: post #141
gpmcadam wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's pretty, but I left with no idea what exactly the product is.

Did you try leaning in?

I mean, I gathered some things. And yes, I watched the large video (after some buffering issues) scrolled through the bullets of features and let it sink in.

I wasn't drawn in enough to read all of the text, but I did take in the headlines and subheadings. And form all of that I left with the impression that it was either:

a. some sort of app for Android (standalne) b. an OS (some kind of lite version of Android with just Facebook social features) and/or; c. a phone that Facebook were making with HTC;

... or some combination thereof.

I understand now that it's a homescreen replacement. But that certainly wasn't the impression I left with.

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