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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 thezilch »

kevincrane wrote: post #62
benhanks040888 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if the 500k number is acceptable since it's only available on selected devices, the 2 stars average rating is undeniable. As comparison, Facebook for Android app has the average rating of 3,5. So I guess the 2 stars should be taken as an alert for the Facebook Home developers to keep working on it.

A lot of people rate Facebook at 1-star because they don't like Facebook as a whole (I think I saw the term "protest vote" somewhere else in this thread). The reviews that just say "I hate Facebook" clearly aren't indicative of Home as a whole.

A lot of people rate Facebook at 5-stars because they like Facebook. The reviews that say "I wish it still had widgets, apps, etc" clearly shouldn't have 4-5 stars, yet do.

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

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Post by eclipxe »

iaskwhy wrote: post #13
ed209 wrote: post #5

They 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?

Chat Heads is really great and it made me think apps multitasking could learn a thing from it. Say for example you double tap on the home button to get all open App Heads, close the ones you don't need anymore and open the others in mini windows by taping on their logos. I can see that being a much better experience than what we have right now (which is not multitasking at all). It's been a while since webOS appeared…

Um. The only difference between webOS app switching and Android (ICS and beyond) recent apps is the size of the thumbnail...

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

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Post by chc »

Karunamon wrote: post #70
benhanks040888 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, there must be lots of people like that. I'm just comparing it to Facebook app which has 3,5 rating (which I'm sure lots of haters 1-star it too but still end up with acceptable rating)

I mentioned this downthread, but Google unlike, say, Amazon doesn't let you rate things you haven't downloaded/purchased. If these really are protest votes, that would mean users are going through the effort of downloading the app, then uninstalling it, then leaving the crap rating. So either there are some dedicated facebook haters out there, or the people who tried this app really hate it that much...

It's not like installing an app is so much more trouble than leaving a rating.

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

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Post by nradov »

Karunamon wrote: post #70
benhanks040888 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, there must be lots of people like that. I'm just comparing it to Facebook app which has 3,5 rating (which I'm sure lots of haters 1-star it too but still end up with acceptable rating)

I mentioned this downthread, but Google unlike, say, Amazon doesn't let you rate things you haven't downloaded/purchased. If these really are protest votes, that would mean users are going through the effort of downloading the app, then uninstalling it, then leaving the crap rating. So either there are some dedicated facebook haters out there, or the people who tried this app really hate it that much...

I rated the Facebook Android app 1 star because it came preinstalled as crapware on my cell phone and there was no way to remove it. I had never downloaded it.

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

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Post by Karunamon »

nradov wrote: post #84
Karunamon wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mentioned this downthread, but Google unlike, say, Amazon doesn't let you rate things you haven't downloaded/purchased. If these really are protest votes, that would mean users are going through the effort of downloading the app, then uninstalling it, then leaving the crap rating. So either there are some dedicated facebook haters out there, or the people who tried this app really hate it that much...

I rated the Facebook Android app 1 star because it came preinstalled as crapware on my cell phone and there was no way to remove it. I had never downloaded it.

You negatively rated the application because your carrier chose to abuse the system/ partition?

Seems like misdirected outrage...

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Post by alaskamiller »

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…

Simplest answer is Tumblr. It's crack to the digital kids these days.

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

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Post by gcb0 »

Karunamon wrote: post #76
gcb0 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sorry, we are talking about carrier locked phones and custom samsung images. Nexus devices do not fit the bill.

Parent comment was explicitly referencing a Nexus device...

But he was replying to my comment regarding Samsung phones
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