No thank you. I don't want to a phone closely tied to a social media service notorious for privacy issues.
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Facebook Appears Set to Debut iPhone Competitor Built on Android on April 4
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Wouldn't investors defecate bricks if this were the case?
Worst idea since Ping...
Atleast there will be something interesting on april 4 
The facebook phone - no way
But the idea behind it and the engineering - am all in
The facebook phone - no way
But the idea behind it and the engineering - am all in
Lol at Google
I wonder if they still think giving Android away for free was a good idea. Now that their #1 ad competitor is trying to use it against them.
Amazon
Samsung
Baidu
Add FB to that list of Google rivals Android is helping make rich
I wonder if they still think giving Android away for free was a good idea. Now that their #1 ad competitor is trying to use it against them.
Amazon
Samsung
Baidu
Add FB to that list of Google rivals Android is helping make rich
No intention of earning anything significant. iAds is about making iOS more appealing to the consumer. This is to be accomplished by having the ads be less annoying and intrusive, all the while making the ads that people do click on more feature-rich and enjoyable.
So, you're saying that Apple's iAd is just as consumer-hostile and exploitative as Google's ad business?
You can't seriously believe this!
Facebook is still the second most trafficked website after only Google according to alexa or whatever the web traffic website is called.
If they're not on Facebook, what are they on?
That's also the first thing that popped into my mind, as I read the article.
More Android fragmentation. Must be music to APPLE's ears.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the announcement event is taking place at 1 Hacker Way?
Not to Facebook users, most are willing to sell their credit report for a free game download.
Chimpboy74 said:
Then why do I keep getting email offering me drugs that will make it smaller lengths?
/sorry, that reply just popped to my head
As always, if you're not paying for the product, its likely that you are the product. I love Google and Facebook like I love bears, beautiful creatures that should be admired, but interaction will only take place if there are steels bars between.
oh yeah, great news!
and whomever the genius was at Apple who thought it was a good idea to enshrine Facebook into the very heart of the operating system, nice job, Einstein, you're fired!
exactly! except when that day comes, Apple will have to willfully remove this passé crap from the OS, thus removing functionally a significant number of users have come to take for granted. aren't they glad they didn't bake MySpace into the iPhone in 2007? they could have left well enough alone and let people simply use the FB app, but no, they put this stink all over the phone at every turn!
just brilliant. /s
and whomever the genius was at Apple who thought it was a good idea to enshrine Facebook into the very heart of the operating system, nice job, Einstein, you're fired!
exactly! except when that day comes, Apple will have to willfully remove this passé crap from the OS, thus removing functionally a significant number of users have come to take for granted. aren't they glad they didn't bake MySpace into the iPhone in 2007? they could have left well enough alone and let people simply use the FB app, but no, they put this stink all over the phone at every turn!
just brilliant. /s
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By that logic, Mac OS X is a fragmentation of UNIX. And the iPhone is a fragmentation of the Mac OS.
The problem is that even if you pay over $500 for it, you'll have almost all the necessary features will be optional purchases to buy.
Browser: $10.
App store: $25
Clock: $5
Weather: $15
Maps: $20
and so on and so on. The issue is that they'll show them in the homescreen like normal apps; like they're bundled with the phone. But when you click it, it'll redirect to the store app
No. Because android itself is a distro of linux, which can run unique apps designed for that certain platform. This thing might be locked out of android apps like the kindle fire, but still, it's a fork of android so it'll run differently to how the developers intended it to.
So most likely not all of the apps will run as they should have. As well, google-released updates won't work on this. Plus, there'l be another app store.
All of this increases fragmentation.
In addition, with the iOS and OS X situation, iOS is merely a stripped down version of OS X. It's not intended to run OS X apps. It's not intended to get the same updates OS X has. It's really just a situation of "hey, we need an OS. Let's do this to OS X, and we'll treat it like an entirely new OS". That's what they're doing.