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Facebook in Talks With Apple to Bring 'Home' to iPhone
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I do agree with you on that note, but I suppose there are also other considerations and complications with the whole thing. For example, if you give Facebook unprecedented access to alter certain fundamental features of the phone with the application, how do you be fair to other developers? Do you allow Twitter to do the same thing? How about Instagram? Or any other app?
This is why you don't have a logistic/ supply chain expert run a creative company...
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It's been well documented in the press that Forestall was protected by Jobs...
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How on earth could you possibly know that?
It's been well documented in the press that Forestall was protected by Jobs...
Difference you are missing is those are fall under as Soon As Apple Does something that Gives Apple More Control Over It's Destiny and Improves the Customer Experience
Apple Giving FaceBook the ability to skin an FaceBook home GUI over it's own and watering down its own user experience does not fall into the above category
I really hope Home doesn't become a new iOS 7 feature. If it does, I hope they include a disable option.
No thanks!!
Its a pure evil piece of software, you may as well give suckerberg all your life paper work, thoughts, money, friends email, phone numbers, etc, etc.
I went to the dark side. They didn't have cookies. I had the SgS3, which started to overheat and on a good day would run out of juice by 6pm without hardly using the thing. So im back to using my trusty iphone 4. I love coming back to the apple simplicity of the iOS, not being able to mess about to much is actually better (even though thats what got me annoyed at using the iphone and made me move to Android), and i'll never complain about iPhone battery life again! But now, no thanks Android. The last thing Apple should do is even contemplate talking to FB about bringing "Home" into iOS.
Its a pure evil piece of software, you may as well give suckerberg all your life paper work, thoughts, money, friends email, phone numbers, etc, etc.
I went to the dark side. They didn't have cookies. I had the SgS3, which started to overheat and on a good day would run out of juice by 6pm without hardly using the thing. So im back to using my trusty iphone 4. I love coming back to the apple simplicity of the iOS, not being able to mess about to much is actually better (even though thats what got me annoyed at using the iphone and made me move to Android), and i'll never complain about iPhone battery life again! But now, no thanks Android. The last thing Apple should do is even contemplate talking to FB about bringing "Home" into iOS.
How about this will happen as soon as Apple releases iTunes for Android, Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry 10?
Why? If I were apple, I would be laughing right now at how horrible it is. It's completely unpractical. And even a shock it got approved.
Facebook can do better. If this is Mark's Best.....then I have no hope for facebook or the development team.
Facebook can do better. If this is Mark's Best.....then I have no hope for facebook or the development team.
We're just hearing about rumored talks now....no way this is happening for iOS 7 (if it ever happens at all).
I think so many are opposed because we should be thinking of ways to minimize our use of Facebook. Not shove it further in our faces.
This notion that our mundane thoughts and actions matter -- the celebrity effect, as I call it -- is getting out of control. I glance through my newsfeed and find nothing informative or interesting. Now, all I see is arbitrary comments about what someone had for lunch and an endless sea of memes, commenting on something political, religious or whatever, and somehow finds a way to judge you for not liking it 'in 5 seconds' if you believe in God. Yes, because God cares about Faebook.
The only useful information on FB comes from, on occasion, the musical artists I like. However, their news and news in general I find elsewhere, before I learn about it on FB.
It's been pretty fantastic lately minimizing my use of that app/website.
If there's no disable feature, I predict a lot of people will delete FB. Some of us prefer not to have FB shoved in our faces at every turn which is what Home represents.
Yea, how about third party everything?
innovation obviously comes from freedom, just look at cydia and android lately...
Oh hell no...
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Hahaha... I need to put on a bib before coming here.
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Because it's doing so well on Android.
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Hahaha... I need to put on a bib before coming here.
Too many elitist' hate on Facebook. tss
- I hope Apple adopt the chat heads. That feature is seriously usefull and implemented well. But of course it wouldn't be just for Facebook.
- The lockscreen is somehow good alternative to the current static image.. that's fine because there will be an option to disable it.
- The two things that Apple would never agree: 1) The circle head as lockscreen unlocker. 2) Facebook Home's App launcher.
- I hope Apple adopt the chat heads. That feature is seriously usefull and implemented well. But of course it wouldn't be just for Facebook.
- The lockscreen is somehow good alternative to the current static image.. that's fine because there will be an option to disable it.
- The two things that Apple would never agree: 1) The circle head as lockscreen unlocker. 2) Facebook Home's App launcher.
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Color me unimpressed with the Facebook Home idea. My life doesn't revolve around Facebook. I've started spending less time using it, mostly because my newsfeed is choked full of suggested apps and suggested posts. I don't need any of that unwanted crap being bombarded onto my home screen.