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Facebook Appears Set to Debut iPhone Competitor Built on Android on April 4

Facebook needs to convince investors that it can profit off of mobile applications as much, and eventually moreso, than its desktop client.

This may be the only way to do so. I understand the move.

What I find funny is all the people here saying there's no way they'd buy it. As if that were even a question for a community of Apple fans.
 
samcraig said:
Where did I say YOU said it? Just following the thread there :)

And iAds are available on the various iPhone models and iPads. For now. We'll have to see if they move over to Apple TV and desktops. If Apple can monetize it (because they're certainly not making great strides in that arena despite their trying) they will.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Apple wishes it was as successful with iAds as Google is with their ads. And if they had been - I doubt many would be spreading FUD about Apple selling people's personal information to advertisers or the fact that "you" are the product.
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Apple makes 90 % of its income from hardware.

Google makes 95 % of its income from advertising .

I don't think Apple has any desire to turn its hardware business into ad based income.

iAd came out to try and counter googles presence on iDevices.
 
A Facebook Phone?

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samcraig said:
Google doesn't sell your personal information to data mining companies. Neither does Apple. Let's not spread FUD.
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the irony in your statement wreaks - Google is a data mining company disguised as an innovative software services tech company. the products and software innovation they provide are merely mechanisms to acquire information about you. the company's foundation is made up of mostly advertising revenue. the problem isn't that they are selling it to data mining companies, they themselves ARE the problem

does Google 411 ring a bell? remember how in the beginning they weren't telling people that they were data mining our voices for voice recognition development? someone blew the whistle or figured out they were recording the entire thing and then Google started announcing it at the beginning of each call. when Google got the voice data they needed, they pulled the plug on the service all together.

do you think Gmail is their form of the Second Bill of Rights where every person should be entitled to a free 10GB email account just for being a human being? you think that the pathetic side ads on the Gmail page are the reason for Gmail existing? Google is acquiring much more than just email content data about you - they are gathering email behavior data, features interaction data, the list goes on that not even you or any of us could ever find out
 
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Peace said:
Apple makes 90 % of its income from hardware.

Google makes 95 % of its income from advertising .

I don't think Apple has any desire to turn its hardware business into ad based income.

iAd came out to try and counter googles presence on iDevices.
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I'm glad we agree that Apple was hoping that their version of mobile advertising would be a great revenue stream and that they would be serving up their customers to advertisers in the same manner as Google serves up theirs. No difference.

Which is why some (not you) need to stop spread FUD about what Google, Apple, etc does and does not do. At the end of the day - we are all dollar signs. We are customers. They are businesses.
 
samcraig said:
I'm glad we agree that Apple was hoping that their version of mobile advertising would be a great revenue stream and that they would be serving up their customers to advertisers in the same manner as Google serves up theirs. No difference.

Which is why some (not you) need to stop spread FUD about what Google, Apple, etc does and does not do. At the end of the day - we are all dollar signs. We are customers. They are businesses.
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Don't think Apple was looking to make iAds into a viable revenue stream.

That's googles thing.
 
Medic311 said:
the irony in your statement wreaks - Google is a data mining company. the products and software innovation they provide are merely mechanisms to acquire information about you

does Google 411 ring a bell? remember how in the beginning they weren't telling people that they were data mining our voices to improve their voice recognition technology for future products? someone blew the whistle or figured out they were recording the entire thing and then Google started announcing it at the beginning of each call. when Google got the voice data they needed, they pulled the plug on the service all together.
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So you agree that Google does not sell your personal information to data mining companies. Glad we agree. Now you can see how your statement "Apple is the only one now who isn't taking our information and selling it off to the world through ads to data mining companies" is an incorrect one.

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Peace said:
Don't think Apple was looking to make iAds into a viable revenue stream.

That's googles thing.
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Seriously?

Ok.

No point in furthering the conversation if you really believe that.
 
Worst phone since ESPN: The Phone...

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And that includes the ROKR.

and I didn't recall that the ESPN Phone was another fine Samsung product.
 
I don't see it as an iOS competitor. If anything, this should help Apple. There will be a Google version, an Amazon version, the new Facebook version, and Samsung's even getting into the act by releasing their own API's and working on their own maps. Then there are all those "flavors"/skins from various OEMs.

Rather than deal with that mess, more consumers will be drawn to the stability and predictability of iOS and its rich ecosystem. It's looking like Google's FrankenOS may come back to haunt them.
 
I can't wait to open Angry Birds and then annoy all of my friends using the Facebook Phone with alerts telling them they would love it because I do. That times every app I use. #fail
 
Reminds me of the Chrome PC. First a PC that only uses an internet browser, now a mobile OS that only uses Facebook. No thanks; in fact, GTFO.
 
So I wonder if someone complains about you posting or saying something offensive that they'll block your phone hahahaha.
 
slffl said:
Really? Google has been doing it for a decade. They even scan your email to get information about you. If you're worried about anyone, worry about Google.
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If you're worried about anyone, worry about your ISP.

Never mind, worry about Facebook. I guess the ends will justify the means if paranoia is what kills it.
 
dolph0291 said:
So I wonder if someone complains about you posting or saying something offensive that they'll block your phone hahahaha.
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Haha, sounds bad for me. Just to give FB the middle finger, I put gibberish as my status randomly. It's crap that I'm forced to use if I want to be in contact with people, but I try and keep my usage only inside of iChat connecting to FB messenger.
 
samcraig said:
So you agree that Google does not sell your personal information to data mining companies. Glad we agree. Now you can see how your statement "Apple is the only one now who isn't taking our information and selling it off to the world through ads to data mining companies" is an incorrect one.
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it's not incorrect, b/c that is what Google indirectly does. their very nature of existing is to acquire information about you via mechanisms such as Gmail, Google+, Google Calendar, and all of the other apps and services they provide in the pull down menu list on the top of your Google Account.

they will not take specific content extracted from emails and attach it to your name and sell that as a data mining package. but what they do is extract, categorize, and sell a data analysis to advertisers as sales pitches of "why you should advertise with google" and offer specific tailored advertisement packages that allow companies to then acquire the data themselves via click-through ads and cookie tracking advertising

proclaiming Google's innocence in the debate of online privacy, is in effect ignoring the elephant in the room
 
If it is a HTC device, it will be a Google Android sanctioned device. Why?

Remember Acer & Aliyun?
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Here-is-why-Google-blocked-Acers-Aliyun-smartphone-launch_id34535

"While Android remains free for anyone to use as they would like, only Android compatible devices benefit from the full Android ecosystem. By joining the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), each member contributes to and builds one Android platform -- not a bunch of incompatible versions," reads the agreement that phone makers like Acer have signed.
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HTC is still a member of the OHA and in turn is forbidden to fork Android if it wants to carry on selling Android hardware. With the Launch of the HTC One merely weeks away, I doubt well be seeing HTC pull out of the OHA and be left with an unproven Facebook Android fork and Windows Phone in their arsenal.

No,

I have a feeling this will simply be a Facebook integrated Android launcher/homescreen distributed through Google Play. Possibly some app based launches.


I really do doubt we'll be seeing a forked Android/Facebook phone, especially with most big OEMS tied down by being members of the OHA.
 
advancewarsbest said:
Given this insight, aside from people trying to look hip and young, without the young people interested I would not think a facebook phone would do well. Reminds me of that one phone that had that "1 button click to facebook" feature.
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iOS? :D
Seriously, I want to get rid of Facebook on my iPhone as a sharing option. It's not a big deal at all, but if I'm not signed into FB, why is the option to share it there?
 
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