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Facebook Introduces New 'Home' Screen for Android Devices, Arrives April 12th

This really isn't for me, and probably isn't for most of us here, but I gotta admit, it's a much better idea than making an entire phone.

EDIT: "HTC and AT&T are the first companies to sign on, building the 'HTC First'."

Spoke too soon :rolleyes:
 
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It's sort of an extension of what Window tiles marketing campaign is.

Microsoft marketed their new OS by stating people wanted to spend less time trying find information/looking at their phone and have that info right in front of them.

Can't say I'm a fan of the UI (FB's). But I'd play with it to test it out.
 
Every time you think iOS is starting to look stale and outdated, look at the abomination Facebook is creating and you will feel that much better about iOS. That seriously looks terrible though. It took me about 3 weeks on each Facebook and Twitter before I became sick and tired of hearing what my friends were doing every single second of the day. No way I could live with a phone that is focused on that. I'm sure it will be a big hit though with early teens and non-working housewives that have nothing more than Pilates and social media to entertain themselves.
 
lifeinhd said:
This really isn't for me, and probably isn't for most of us here, but I gotta admit, it's a much better idea than making an entire phone.
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It isn't for anyone -- everyone in the teen/tween market has already moved on to using SnapChat and Instagram. Facebook is old news.
 
From what I can see so far, the main differences between the experience we have now (whether it be iPhone and iPad or Android phones and tablets) and Facebook Home are:
  • Home runs continuously in the background to prefetch and update timeline
  • Notification is fully integrated to Android, with "chat heads" of friends you are chatting with (or wants to chat with you)
  • Facebook Messager integrates and replaces native SMS

In other words, no thanks.
 
Does the Facebook phone automatically update your 'status' with your current location or posts automatically updates about places you are visiting ?

I deleted my FB account when FB started showing articles I read on 'partner' websites ... I think they stopped that again - but I decided that I want always be in charge of what I post and not have FB decide what I post - that and the constant changing of the 'privacy' settings without telling me (that is adding new privacy invading 'features' that I could turn off, but were enabled by default and no warning send out about it.

Another annoying part was that some people started using only FB-messages - so I basically got an email to my normal email account that I have to login to FB to read what someone wants to send me ...
 
samcraig said:
It's sort of an extension of what Window tiles marketing campaign is.

Microsoft marketed their new OS by stating people wanted to spend less time trying find information/looking at their phone and have that info right in front of them.

Can't say I'm a fan of the UI (FB's). But I'd play with it to test it out.
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It's like any other UI change - people HATE it because it's not what they're used to at first, then slowly adapt, get used to it, love it and then hate the next iteration because it's not like the last version (that they also initially hated).

How many times does FB change it's newsfeed that people LOATHE... then they get over it once they figure it out. The challenge will be getting people to willingly change to something they're unfamiliar with.
 
If there is any company in Silicon Valley that is experiencing lack of innovation, it's Facebook. Something like this is only going to cause consumer confusion. Facebook's 'home screen" or whatever it's called is a customized Android build or a UI/skin that sits on top of Android (like Amazon's, Samsung's, etc.). Oh surely that isn't going to cause consumer confusion, right?

This is the worst idea of the year, second only to the iWatch.
 
thelink said:
I don't believe it.
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I do actually. At first I thought that sounded a bit low, but thinking about it, I only really use my phone when I'm out of the house. When I get back, I'm on my Mac 99% of the time, with my phone used mainly to set timers with Siri while I'm cooking dinner.

And we all know my usage patterns are reflective of everybody :D
 
radiohead14 said:
how is it "fragmentation", when facebook even stated that it is not a fork of android itself? so giving you the option to have this as an addition is "fragmentation"?
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I contemplated a similar post, only to give the poster the benefit of the doubt that it was a (failed) attempt at sarcasm.
 
Looks desperate...

After looking at this a second time, it's clearly an attempt by Facebook to stay relevant in a world that has moved on. So sad.
 
Number 41 said:
It isn't for anyone -- everyone in the teen/tween market has already moved on to using SnapChat and Instagram. Facebook is old news.
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I'm not so sure. I'm sitting here in a common area at university, and while I was reading your post, I heard the group behind me talking about FB.

And Instagram.
 
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