Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
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Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#2Why?
EDIT: seriously, why? Were people really clamoring for more Facebook in their lives?
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Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#4Facebook is touting Facebook Home as a "visually rich stream of media," but all it's going to turn out to be is a feed of filtered food and memes.
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#5My initial thoughts (without having a ton of time to really absorb this yet) is that Apple's closed operating system may have just become a liability. The open 'intent' model of Android is really at the core of making something like this possible. In turn though does this also allow Facebook to take over "too many" aspects of Android and cut into Google's revenue streams as well? All things I'm still pondering.
As an aside... I am a big HTC fan. Nice to see them able to get on board at the ground level of some new projects.
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#6Facebook is touting Facebook Home as a "visually rich stream of media," but all it's going to turn out to be is a feed of filtered food and memes.
If you don't like what your friends post to Facebook then you should reconsider if you want to be friends with them, or if you should begin using the tools FB already provides to control the content in your feed.
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#7The UI while being pretty and having cool animations is actually faulty. Touch targets aren't large enough (comment, like, etc as seen from the demo)
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#8Homescreens definitely can improve on phones. A huge multipage listing of Apps I have seems very inefficient. And while I'm nervous with this being from FB, I hope we see more unique home screens popping up.
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#9My initial thoughts (without having a ton of time to really absorb this yet) is that Apple's closed operating system may have just become a liability. The open 'intent' model of Android is really at the core of making something like this possible. In turn though does this also allow Facebook to take over "too many" aspects of Android and cut into Google's revenue streams as well? All things I'm still pondering. As an…
In this case it's not intents, it's that the homescreen is a replaceable app. This is the most thoroughly rethought homescreen replacement I've seen.
Re: Facebook Announces “Home”, A Homescreen Replacement For Standard Android
#10Facebook is touting Facebook Home as a "visually rich stream of media," but all it's going to turn out to be is a feed of filtered food and memes.
If you don't like what your friends post to Facebook then you should reconsider if you want to be friends with them, or if you should begin using the tools FB already provides to control the content in your feed.
Many people use facebook as just another way to communicate with friends, either through messages, wall posts, or event invites. I don't really care if they post uninteresting stuff to their own wall. Actually, it'd be rather sad if I reevaluated my friendships just based on that.