Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

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Post by RmDen » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 5:14 PM UTC

Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android
techcrunch.com

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Post by protomyth » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 9:45 PM UTC

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.

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Post by mattynice » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 9:48 PM UTC

All the more reason to consider the HTC Vive or Steam Index if interested in being an early adapter of VR where their achievements can be more collaborative.

Side note regarding Portal and other "social hardware", I can't imagine there being user-friendly privacy toggles when facebook owns the complete stack..

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Post by twiceaday » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 9:50 PM UTC

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.

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Post by rb808 » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 9:50 PM UTC

Wasn't there one like this already (though used android) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First

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Post by sjg007 » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 9:51 PM UTC

Makes sense. It'll be a *nix variant probably.. we might get a nice new UI layer out of it.

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Post by whoisjuan » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 9:52 PM UTC

For a company of the size of FB and its ambitions, this seems kind of late. I would have thought they already had something like this.

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Post by Slippery_John » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

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.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 9:58 PM UTC

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Post by Apocryphon » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 9:58 PM UTC

Finally, a rival for Fuchsia.