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I think were all missing the point here, there's now a "facebook phone". For a certain demographic facebook is the most important thing on their phone. It doesn't really matter if home is a huge inovation or not, it only needs to be slightly better then iOS and Android for using facebook and this demo will adopt it. Facebook is opening up a new market for themselves and with a phone for $99 its very easy for someone…
There's always a flip-side to this argument though, and that is that by not heavily investing, there really are pretty low barriers to entry for other tech companies with means.
What prevents Twitter or Google from releasing the exact same thing and then splitting this market proportionally to the market for social networks/new sites in general? I rarely use Facebook so this release has little utility for me. I fully understand I'm not representative of everyone and that there are many teenage girls who will fall over themselves to install it when it comes out.
But if Twitter or even Yahoo released a similar product, I have to believe I would be a lot more likely to install it. This to me just seems like a spruced-up notification system for Facebook. I don't really think it adds a whole lot to their bottom line or site usage.
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I would say it is. A hero animation carries much more information than a single image does.
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Well you could try making some attractive new friends.
That has MVP written all over it. "Friend me and we'll inject awesome, and tasteful, photos into your photo stream."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/05/fake-facebo...
So basically, this seems like a widget to me. What am I missing?
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'…
I think the biggest thing for me is that my smartphone has always been a "private" thing for me, a place where I can choose to interact with people, or spend hours playing Angry Birds. With this phone, I'm forced into an environment where I feel like I need to be social all the time, and I feel that might wear on a lot of people.
I don't install non-work IM programs on my desktops anymore because I found that an 'online' status typically denoted to people that I'm available to talk. It got to a point where my wife was even pinging me too often. Then I just put it on unavailable/offline all the time and then what's the point of having it in the first place? I think the younger generation doesn't have an expectation of non-invasiveness yet. The…
With the exception of Facebook Chat, that is the purpose of the Online status. There's (busy/your client's name for it) for "I'm here, but may not be able to reply". And offline for when you're actually not available. If it wasn't for Skype's terrible offline messaging implementation, I'd have said that 90% of the time offline or busy implies you should probably close the IM client.
(Facebook is different because afaict, there's no way to manually put it into the away state, it just does it if you haven't interacted with Facebook in a while)