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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

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Post by AznHisoka »

untog wrote: post #35

The title feels clickbait-y. It should be pretty obvious why there were only 500K downloads- it's only available on around three devices. I'm interested to at least take a look at it, but I can't. As for the reviews, many of them are of the "I hate Facebook" variety, but others seem to state (correctly) that it need some work. Given Facebook have committed to monthly releases, I don't think this is the end of Faceboo…

I see it in another way. There's another reason why they have so many downloads - Facebook is a brand name, and people just wanted to try it out, they'll uninstall it the next day.

Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

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Post by alex_c »

Karunamon wrote: post #34
spinchange wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has it occurred to you that there might be a use-case mismatch between treating a social network as a source of always-on, in-your-face infotainment and a communications vehicle with imperfect yet valued human beings you know and care about? Or do you expect everyone you know to be excellent, always-interesting, content curators?

I expect users of a social network service to understand the most basic details of how such a service works. Slamming the service because you don't like the postings of people you chose to subscribe to is just a little bit ridiculous. It would be like subscribing to political blogs on $rssApp and then leaving bad ratings for the app because your news stream is filled with political news. Facebook's tools have been pr…

Why are you blaming the users and the friends, but not the service?

I friend people based on how well I know them and wanting to keep in touch, not how interesting their facebook posts are. Sure, I don't really care about all the mundane things my friends' kids do every day, but it's nice to know what people are up to in general. That doesn't mean the stream is irrelevant or useless to me, but it also doesn't mean I need to see it every time I turn on my phone.

Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

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Post by probably_wrong »

yen223 wrote: post #50
criley wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>So i'll say it again. You, the user, is ultimately responsible for what comes up in your stream. I think this is a very outdated and anti-user way to approach the Facebook service, and I hope your idea of how these services work will be overthrown by better startups or a better Facebook. I see it as simply: * A failure of Facebook to figure out what I like seeing, which is shocking seeing as I literally "Like" the t…

I can only imagine the shitstorm that will happen when Facebook starts actively curating content for you...

They already do by default, but they are doing a pretty bad job. Unless you specifically set it to do so, you only get updates from the people Facebook considers you are interested in.

Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

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Post by omni »

kaio wrote: post #46

I'm pretty sure a lot of developers would be more than happy with "only" 500K downloads ... especially with only a few supported devices like this. Makes me wonder if a lot of negative ratings is just another marketing strategy. "You have to see how crappy this app is"

What an average developer would be happy with is not relevant in any way to a multi-billion dollar company with investors to answer to.

Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

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Post by baby »

For those who tried it, is Home the answer to the conflict between Messenger and Facebook? the two apps from Facebook that would give you twice the notification in case of a message.

I get that people will all have internet on their phone in a few years and that launching a service like facebook messenger right now is clever, but it didn't have the technology to detect if facebook app was installed to disable the notification in at least one of the apps.

I'm seeing Home as the "fix" but can't try it on my device...

Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

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Post by lmm »

Karunamon wrote: post #22
criley wrote: post #4

I 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…

vapid updates of friends Don't friend people on Facebook who post garbage. Any social service (Facebook, Twitter, etc) is only as good as the effort you put into curating the experience. Oh, and if you feel you must friend someone, you can just hide everything they post from your news feed.

I like getting different levels of detail from different networks, particularly since I've never seen a good implementation of multiple views at different "noisiness" on the same network. So it would be a net negative for me to combine all my streams in a single view; facebook is at one priority level, email is another, rss is another.

Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

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Post by r00fus »

gcb0 wrote: post #8

This 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?

I had no idea that "open" Android was so locked down for your average (ie, non-rooting) user. Combine with bootloader locks, and you have mandatory privacy invading apps.

And some people think Apple is Big Brother?

Re: Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

r00fus wrote: post #59
gcb0 wrote: post #8

This 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?

I had no idea that "open" Android was so locked down for your average (ie, non-rooting) user. Combine with bootloader locks, and you have mandatory privacy invading apps. And some people think Apple is Big Brother?

Not sure why gcb0 elided to point out that since 4.0 Android allows disabling built in apps. (Functionality equivalent to deleting, except their space in the ROM is still occupied).

Locked/unlocked bootloaders is a fairly different issue and is seeming to be much less of an issue lately.

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