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AT&T to Discontinue 'Facebook Phone' HTC First?

The issue Zuckerburg and others don't get is facebook is successful for need and not want. No one wants to use facebook but we all have to cause it's the only way at times to keep in touch with everyone. With this in mind, giving more of what people don't want, ie more facebook is always a bad idea.

What people want is the facebook network. To keep incontact with everyone. But minimalise it. Integrate it with the OS deeply so you don't even know you're using facebook at times. I always have believed the best features are the ones that you use without even realising it. Cause they just work seamlessly with your other tasks in the device.

Facebook on the home screen is not seamless. That's saying "look at me this is facebook". People want to use facebook without using it is that's even possible. And that's the design philosophy facebook needs to take.
 
Says a lot. I signed up for Facebook way back when it first launched and no one heard of it, just in case it amounted to something. It did, but I still have no use for it.
 
Facebook Home and Chat heads - dumbest idea

Who's their UI designer at Facebook these days? "Chat Heads" and Facebook Home were DOA, yet no one at Facebook saw past the blinders they had on.

They're intrusive on smaller screens which most of us have (even the Samsungs they're still intrusive), and were a horribly implemented design idea, not to mention a security risk on unattended/locked phone screens.

I'm reserving a bottle of champagne when these two features are put to rest for good.
 
Spoke with ATT Rep in a Retail Store This Weekend

She said that the only people interested were girls 13-17. Enough said.
 
What does this have to do with Apple or Mac?

Seriously. How is this news relevant to macrumors.com?

An mid-range Android phone with a custom UI for facebook was introduced and discontinued. The only marginally related text is talk of the chatheads iOS app, which is an approximation of the Android app.

I dunno, this (and the top voted comment) just screams of schadenfreude.
 
TWSS37 said:
I love when people comment like this when in actuality, "6th grade girls" have moved on to other social media formats and the older generation (read: the demographic currently buying the iPhone) use Facebook much more regularly.
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Ok, all the young kids I know now socialize on Instagram
 
TWSS37 said:
I love when people comment like this when in actuality, "6th grade girls" have moved on to other social media formats and the older generation (read: the demographic currently buying the iPhone) use Facebook much more regularly.
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Exactly. Ask any kid about Facebook and they'll tell you the same thing: Facebook is for "old people." Once your parents and mainstream advertising are on a particular social media platform, it's not "cool" anymore, and "cool" is what sells. Sadly, at 30 years old, I'm part of the older demographic still using Facebook and I'm using it on my iPhone. Oh well, I was never one of the cool kids anyway lol.
 
That figures

I know I don't use Facebook 25 percent of the time, I guess that's not a smartphone since such a dumb decision to create a phone like that
 
Facebook is for people who actually think they are important, and think people actually care about what they have to say. Kind of like this post. :D
 
randomguyishere said:
I feel like part of the reason Facebook failed here is because there wasn't enough marketing hype about it. I mean, come on, I didn't see a single ad even on their own website showing off Home. Despite the announcement they had, they still didn't draw enough attention toward the product before it was released. Just my two sense.. :eek:

Now, this is not to say that even if there was enough excitement about the product, it would be successful.
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Seriously?? There were a number of ads shown many, many times during primetime TV on several channels. I lost count of how many times I was skipping them with the DVR.

I think they just don't get what people actually want.
 
PDXoPDX said:
It's a shame Facebook isn't also being discontinued...
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I could not agree more. I have never used it, nor do I intend to.

However it's so incredibly popular that most all of my friends, as well as their wives or girlfriends do. Yet that said they are finally beginning to get tired of it. They are waking up to the downsides which are many. One of the worst is the depth and breadth of tracking they do. Not to mention the time that is largely wasted.

None of us like to be tracked, but accept some of it due to the fact it's nearly inescapable, unless one goes to great lengths. Even then it's difficult to avoid. If the "TOS" and "Privacy Statements" could be believed and trusted, that would be one thing, and even then some are getting quite nefarious.

But here in the USA there's simply too much money to be made off of our personal data.

A thrill a minute :)
 
Not that I'd ever use Facebook but nevertheless it seems from a cynical observer's POV that Facebook's modus operandi is to make Facebook Home as invasive, intrusive and centred only on driving Facebook as they think they can get away with for the most easily fooled user, and then just keep scaling it back with modifications till they hit a sweet spot.

In many ways this 'top down' approach makes sense rather than the more time consuming 'bottom up' method that works when companies like Facebook are still small, where they make something useful and then gradually add more invasive revenue oriented and privacy flouting tweaks till they are so big that they have visions of taking over the universe.
 
If people liked Facebook THAT much, there would be Facebook stores in malls. Alas, it's kind of like email. People love to use it, but they aren't ready to get married to the damn thing.
 
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