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Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Re: Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Post by kerng »

Mark Lucovsky is pretty legendary! Every Windows exe starts with the two bytes ML!

EDIT: As others pointed out its actually another Mark, MZ. Lucovsky was the Mark, who Steve Ballmer was throwing chairs around when he said to leave for Google. Still legendary. :)

Re: Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Post by justinsaccount »

kerng wrote: post #13

Mark Lucovsky is pretty legendary! Every Windows exe starts with the two bytes ML! EDIT: As others pointed out its actually another Mark, MZ. Lucovsky was the Mark, who Steve Ballmer was throwing chairs around when he said to leave for Google. Still legendary. :)

Every windows exe starts with the two bytes MZ

Re: Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Post by hurricanetc »

twiceaday wrote: post #4
protomyth wrote: post #2

By moving to its own OS, Facebook could have more freedom to bake social interaction — and hopefully privacy — deeper into its devices. Privacy? I expect some amazing detailed & intrusive data gathering.

By 'Privacy' they mean they will be the only ones with access to your data.

Except for all the companies that accidentally leak it to, all the companies that grab it in breaches, all the companies that find it sitting in S3, all the companies they sell it to, etc.

But otherwise yes only Facebook will have it.

Re: Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Post by behringer »

Slippery_John wrote: post #8

I doubt this will get much in the way of mainstream penetration. You're never going to see any competitive phone installations of this. It'll probably mostly be for things like portal. I doubt they'd be successful in doing a chromebook competitor either given how horribly tarnished their name is, but it does at least seem more realistic than a phone.

You kidding? Free phones with Facebook OS built in all funded by selling every scrap of your data? Third world countries are gonna eat that up to begin with, and then it'll spread all over.

Re: Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Post by umeshunni »

kerng wrote: post #13

Mark Lucovsky is pretty legendary! Every Windows exe starts with the two bytes ML! EDIT: As others pointed out its actually another Mark, MZ. Lucovsky was the Mark, who Steve Ballmer was throwing chairs around when he said to leave for Google. Still legendary. :)

That's MZ for Mark Zbikowski - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbikowski
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