Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating
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Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating
#2I am amazed that there is an app worse than Facebook for Android.
Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating
#3To be fair, the slow growth might partly be explained by their restricting it to a few devices in the US only.
Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating
#4I tried it out but I found it too suffocating -- Facebook, like Google, wants their "feed" to be your main IV-line of info-tainment but in practice the vapid updates of friends mixed in with poorly constructed advertisements isn't very engaging.
If someone makes Facebook Home for aggregated RSS feeds, than they've invented mobile crack and I will never be able to put it down. So maybe don't do that.
Also, Chat Heads is the best SMS implementation I've used on Android, so kudos to Facebook for that.
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#5They should have released two different products. Chat Heads and Facebook Home.
I think Chat Heads looks like a strong product (only from referencing the videos though, I don't have it).
Without Chat Heads, would Facebook Home have been released to such a fanfare?
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#6I'm not sure if average user rating is a good indicator of quality. I've seen people give 1-star ratings because they wanted a feature that was missing.
Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating
#7I tried it out but I found it too suffocating -- Facebook, like Google, wants their "feed" to be your main IV-line of info-tainment but in practice the vapid updates of friends mixed in with poorly constructed advertisements isn't very engaging. If someone makes Facebook Home for aggregated RSS feeds, than they've invented mobile crack and I will never be able to put it down. So maybe don't do that. Also, Chat Heads…
Flipboard does quite a good job of grabbing content from multiple sources of your choice and displaying them in an attractive format. It's not a homescreen thing, but that's probably for the best. Do you really want non-urgent things shoved in your face constantly?
Google Now has the most useful approach here, and I'm eager to see that developed even further. If you could populate it with selected RSS feeds, that would be nice.
Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating
#8This is irrelevant.
those intrusive apps are made with carrier integration in mind.
You can't uninstall Facebook from any Samsung phone. And you won't uninstall Facebook home from the new s4 and updated s3 and notes.
So, why care about user ratings?
Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating
#9They should have released two different products. Chat Heads and Facebook Home. I think Chat Heads looks like a strong product (only from referencing the videos though, I don't have it). Without Chat Heads, would Facebook Home have been released to such a fanfare?
Unless I'm mistaken, they did. Chat Heads is part of the most recent Facebook Messanger update. You can get it without Home.
Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating
#10I tried it out but I found it too suffocating -- Facebook, like Google, wants their "feed" to be your main IV-line of info-tainment but in practice the vapid updates of friends mixed in with poorly constructed advertisements isn't very engaging. If someone makes Facebook Home for aggregated RSS feeds, than they've invented mobile crack and I will never be able to put it down. So maybe don't do that. Also, Chat Heads…
>If someone makes Facebook Home for aggregated RSS feeds, than they've invented mobile crack and I will never be able to put it down. So maybe don't do that.
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