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Re: Facebook Home

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Post by inopinatus »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #58
dotBen wrote: post #16

I take issue with the problem statement: "today, phones are built around tasks and apps. To see what's happening with your friends, you pull out your phone and navigate through a series of separate apps." Firstly, the value to me in owning a smartphone and paying the charges associated with it is ultimately task orientated - from running my business, to getting driving directions, to wanting to play a specific genre…

" Maybe I don't fit the demographic, but I don't want [task-orientation] to become second-class citizens over friend communications. " You're not their demographic. Phones are still a primarily social technology for most people. The most popular features, voice calls, text messaging, and possibly email, revolve around people . P.S. I know several people who friend news sources and bloggers and use Fb as an ersatz RSS…

The target segment is quite evident from the splash page that says, and yes this is my serious face, "Get right to Facebook, Instagram and other essentials".

Re: Facebook Home

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Post by ChuckMcM »

ritchiea wrote: post #47
danso wrote: post #8

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'…

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."

Re: Facebook Home

#154

Post by inopinatus »

trust-me wrote: post #150
jakobe wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't it weird that there are only girls in the video?

It's only natural - the home is the place for women :D

Flippant ironic sexism is still sexism.

Admonishments aside, anyone who took Marketing 101 can see that this product is clearly designed for socially adept women 18-30. Most clearly evident from the opening video, and Facebook's marketing team will be canny enough to know exactly what they are doing and who they want to reach.

Re: Facebook Home

#155

Post by nthj »

mbrock wrote: post #57
danso wrote: post #8

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'…

Just unfriend them. Life's too short.

or uncheck "Show in News Feed."

I don't even want to know the ratio of people I'm friends with vs. people I actually see in my feed. Probably 1 in 10 at this point.

Re: Facebook Home

#156

Post by takluyver »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #139
zem wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it might just be a hook to induce more people to install a facebook app and/or use facebook. i don't use the facebook app myself (as you say, i don't want facebook having access to my phone), but if i did i would see no real privacy reason not to use this one too.

Do any phones (other than the Nexus line) come without a Facebook app? It was pre-installed on my Sony Ericsson, and I can't even remove it without rooting. This 'app' though, is much more. It takes over all your home screens, and the launcher, so if Facebook were data mining on it I believe they could have information about every application you have installed, when you use them etc. To my knowledge, apps don't get…

I've got a Samsung Galaxy Ace, bought in the UK late last year, that didn't (and still doesn't) have a facebook app.

Re: Facebook Home

#157

Post by r00fus »

hoverkraft wrote: post #148

Does this remind anyone else of the ill conceived Motorola Rokr? http://img.iguor.com/2012/11/112752-apple-ceo-jobs-introduce...

How? Because you think it's Facebook's stalking horse? Or because you think Home is going to flop like the ROKR?

Re: Facebook Home

#159

Post by charleslmunger »

I think this is going to suck. And I think that because Facebook apparently doesn't have any engineers who do "plumbing" - uninteresting work that's necessary.

The core Facebook app still has a software menu button pop up, because they're not targeting a remotely recent build of Android. There is not a single jellybean-style rich notification anywhere to be found. The MediaUploadService doesn't stop itself if media upload is turned off, and it shouldn't even be on because android 4.x broadcasts an intent when a picture is taken anyway.

As we saw in a post about a month ago, monkey patching dalvik is sexy and interesting to work on - the fact that their codebase is so convoluted that they have to is a symptom of sloppy engineering.

Re: Facebook Home

#160

Post by uptown »

danso wrote: post #8

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'…

"what does all this look like when your friends aren't as attractive/good at photography"

That's why Instagram was so important. We'll just slather on filters till things either look better or imperceptible as human.

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