"Mark is worried that if he doesn't create a mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms," a Facebook employee said
Um. Facebook IS an app. What an idiot.
"Mark is worried that if he doesn't create a mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms," a Facebook employee said
Mark Zuckerberg might be socially retarded but he's not a moron. Something tells me that they aren't looking to make a phone but to make their stuff more phone friendly. After all they had no official phone apps for a while and even now the dang app crashes like crazy. Understanding how the phones work, what hardware they have to run on etc, could be to make the apps better. Which would be a very very smart move.
If they write software for it that's as good as the current Facebook iPhone app, then they're onto a winner....
As someone once said, it's all about the software.
Facebook is negatively impacting the Internet with its all in one design that the Internet helped destroy.
Due to this I have to wish failure on most things Facebook tries to do.
I think Zuckerburg needs to make things better with the current apps/website of Facebook. Simply put, Facebook could be much better and no, timeline is not better.
The current fb apps on android and iphone should be rewritten and the current app developers fired for making such lousy apps. It lags, hangs up, crashes, takes ages to load. While if I go to the Twitter app I get none of these things.
Zuckerburg making a phone isn't going to fix your company.
That would be the dumbest move, ever; Force people to buy a FacePalm(tm) by dumbing down (even more) the apps that are available on other plaforms, or removing them altogether?
The backlash would be enormous and would make no business sense at all.
RTP.
Hiring experienced talent is a time honored way to get something done quickly.
B&N and Amazon did it for their tablets. Google bought Android to get it done. I would also bet that Apple hired experienced contractors to do much of the original iPhone radio hardware and software.
That does not compute. Do you think Steve Jobs knew what chips were needed for a phone? This sounds more like a hiring interview question, to make sure they're not getting someone who just claims to have worked on the iPhone.
Do you really think he didn't know which chips went in?![]()
There's a big difference between buying an entire company or division of a company (like Google did with Android), and just hiring some guys who used to work on product X. And Apple also had decades of experience in hardware design before the iPhone, whereas FB has none. Apple understands manufacturers, materials suppliers, transportation, supply chain, import/export, etc. FB has zero experience in this kind of design.
Yes, I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs had a good idea about what chips went into the iPhone. He was a control freak and a perfectionist, in addition to being fairly technical. Do you really think he didn't know which chips went in?![]()
I'm waiting for the Angry Birds phone.
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There's already FB app for Android, WP, iOS... I wonder what extra FB phone could bring?
I am not sure Twitter and FB are quite comparable apps. Could there be a more trivial app than twitter (client side)?
Plus, FB brings some serious baggage. Its core offering is increasingly viewed as spyware. Do people really want an ad company to know every email, phone call, web search, picture, etc., they make and send? I sure wouldn't.
I really struggle to see how a Facebook phone would contend in the market.
But Mark, I have a great name for your new device
Buy an established smartphone name from, ohhh.... I don't know, someone like HP. Like Palm.
Get your marketing team to work on a catchy name, incorporating Facebook and Palm.
And here you have it. Your new phone: The FacePalm
I reckon we at Macrumors should henceforth refer to the Facebook phone as the FacePalm
RTP.
It worked great for Palm, should be even better for FB![]()
God I hate Facebook, so this news makes me very happy. Will be nice seeing Apple and Google murder this Facebook phone.