Facebook Tries Again on a Smartphone
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Facebook Tries Again on a Smartphone
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#2It should be titled "Facebook tries to obtain a platform that it controls so that it isn't reliant on others".
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#3"It could easily scoop up an infirm company like Research in Motion, which is valued at less than $6 billion, and drop a beautifully designed Facebook operating system on top of RIM’s phones."
I find this to be an affront to engineers and designers. It trivializes the amount of time and effort it takes to make a well engineered product.
Can someone elucidate why it might be important for Facebook to have it's own hardware? Why wouldn't apps on an Android or iOS or Windows Phone be good enough (of course with seamless integration like Twitter on iOS)?
P.S. With Facebook's current alliance with MS, doesn't Windows Phone make for a good platform to build upon. Note, I believe that Windows Phone will eventually take off.
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#4FB OS. AKA Root-kit.
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#5" It could easily scoop up an infirm company like Research in Motion, which is valued at less than $6 billion, and drop a beautifully designed Facebook operating system on top of RIM’s phones. " I find this to be an affront to engineers and designers. It trivializes the amount of time and effort it takes to make a well engineered product. Can someone elucidate why it might be important for Facebook to have it's own h…
Not being totally integrated leaves them vulnerable to being replaced. Windows Phone isn't an option, it has no room for customization at all.
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#6I was surprised to read that Facebook has its own operating system. Does anybody know anything about this?
Count me in as someone who would never use a Facebook phone. Might as well use a CIA phone. I'm all for watching the competition though.
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#7" It could easily scoop up an infirm company like Research in Motion, which is valued at less than $6 billion, and drop a beautifully designed Facebook operating system on top of RIM’s phones. " I find this to be an affront to engineers and designers. It trivializes the amount of time and effort it takes to make a well engineered product. Can someone elucidate why it might be important for Facebook to have it's own h…
Facebook is already quite (but not perfectly—the big thing I've noticed is that the non-chat "messages" part of FB requires going into the FB app) well integrated into Windows Phone. And unless they have some truly groundbreaking interface ideas, I'd also rather see them continue to work more with MS on integrating into and pushing that platform, rather than introducing yet another one.
Also, does RIM have particularly nice phones, hardware-wise, these days? Another reason I'd rather see them work with MS is that then anything particularly cool they bring to the software side could run on gorgeous Nokia hardware.
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#8I was surprised to read that Facebook has its own operating system. Does anybody know anything about this? Count me in as someone who would never use a Facebook phone. Might as well use a CIA phone. I'm all for watching the competition though.
From the link in that paragraph to the Facebook App Center page, it sounds to me like they're referring to the Facebook platform itself as an OS. Which I suppose is fair in a way, with all the services it offers, but it's hardly a mobile phone OS in its current state.
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#9" It could easily scoop up an infirm company like Research in Motion, which is valued at less than $6 billion, and drop a beautifully designed Facebook operating system on top of RIM’s phones. " I find this to be an affront to engineers and designers. It trivializes the amount of time and effort it takes to make a well engineered product. Can someone elucidate why it might be important for Facebook to have it's own h…
>> I find this to be an affront to engineers and designers. It trivializes the amount of time and effort it takes to make a well engineered product.
Doubly so, because RIM's previous management's product roadmaps and actions (i.e., let's just buy QNX and TAT - we'll have something workable in no time!) were an affront to engineers and designers.
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#10They could try to revive webOS - certainly a lot of work already gone in to that.