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iOS 6 to Bring Systemwide Facebook Integration

wow. I don't use Twitter...well kinda but only a few times.

When Apple added Twitter to the iOS system "my panties didn't get in a bunch" like some on here.

Chill people, There is no NEED to sign into and all your rights away. FB is there for Flipboard. just ignore it and don't sign in.

I wouldn't mind it...though it might be nice to have a scrolling "SHARE" button where you could customize it and add your own things...like the ever popular Pinterest or any other things like that.
 
Menopause said:
Just because you don't want it doesn't mean others don't. Many apps use Facebook to login (thereby preventing the ordeal of going through signing up for a new account with the app itself). If you don't like the integration, you can simply choose not to use it.
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And this is a good reason why not to want it. I could see apps getting lazy and requiring your FB login to log in their app.

And no, I don't want FB having access to all sorts of different things about me.
 
Rocketman said:
It wouldn't be entirely out of range for Apple to go through all the WWDC stuff with it and still deprecate the feature before final release.

But this does address the financial news concerns voiced that Facebook has no mobile strategy. Being in iOS6 on a system wide level on a platform with historically rapid uptake and very rapid new user uptake, means FB has a fully baked mobile strategy from day one of iOS6. This is contrary to rumors which have been focused on a FB branded phone which all agree would take considerable resources and time and may still fail loudly.

This may not be a buy signal for FB stock quite yet, but when it does bottom out under $25, more likely $18, one can begin to accumulate. I would still far rather own AAPL, GOOG or even XON.

Rocketman
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The thing is where does the revenue come from???

Does Apple *pay* Facebook for the privilege of integrating its technology with Facebook?

Do we get SPAM in the system wide integrated Facebook news feed?

You have to have a revenue model. Just because you have a **** ton of users is meaningless, hence the "social networking" bubble.

If there is no advertising accompanying Facebook integration (major loss to users) or Apple isn't paying them on a per phone basis (don't get me started on this one) then it is meaningless to their bottom line.

Facebook isn't a social networking company. They are an advertising company. Just like Google isn't a search company, they are an advertising company. Advertising is their core business. They use social networking/search to drive page views. If a smoking chimp drove page views they would do that too (of wait, they did that with YouTube).
 
I don't see the need for this, if you want Facebook on your phone surely there is an app for that..
 
Ok -- so there's 800 Million Active Facebook users and Apple's intergration of this almost-billion user phenomenon is a bad thing?! What the hell am I missing? No one says a person has to put their whole life history and family secrets/skeletons online. Use it. Don't use it. Use it a lot. Use it a little. Grow up.

Apple is catering to the masses on this and it absolutely makes sense. There's talk of a Facebook phone. This is simple business. Twitter is all over the place on iOS5 and I don't use it -- however -- I don't fault Apple for intergrating it so heavily. It's staying competitive and being proactive.
 
Far to many people in this thread are attention seeking tools who know full well that Facebook won't be a forced feature, but you absoluely love to be that guy who hates something mainstream.

Twitter is a useless to me but I have half a shred of rationale to realise that people do use it. I have the choice not to, as do we all.
 
Why is this a big deal?

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TechCrunch reports that iOS 6 will include system-level integration of Facebook, similar to the integration seen with Twitter in iOS 5. The report comes just days after Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke positively about Facebook at the D10 Conference, closing his thoughts on the relationship between Apple and Facebook with the suggestive phrase "stay tuned".TechCrunch notes that Apple and Facebook are still working out how sharing items to Facebook will be integrated, given the varying levels of permissions on Facebook posts. The report also includes the caveat that Apple has been known to change its mind in the past, but as of right now Facebook integration is reportedly set to be unveiled in iOS 6 at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference later this month.

Article Link: iOS 6 to Bring Systemwide Facebook Integration
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I have been an Apple fanboy for years. In the last ten years I have owned 4 mac laptops, 4 iPhones, 6 iPods, 2 iPads, and 1 iMac. Android allows deep integration with any social service...it is an open API and the apps use it (and the user is notified when the app is installed). With iOS you only get that level of integration if a bunch of money changes hands in a corporate deal and then it gets exaggerated about regarding how great and innovative it is.

Currently I use an iPhone and an Android phone. iPhone is far behind Android for everything but Twitter...and for Twitter they are merely equals....as they will probably be for Facebook...so how is this a big deal? It actually indicates an issue.

One more point....in Android you can remove the equivalent of "Deep Integration". How? Remove the app. You cannot remove the Twitter deep integration from iOS. I do not have a Twitter account set up at all, but I can not get the stupid "Tweet" button to disappear. I will be watching iOS 6 closely because they need to lighten up and give me, the user, more control.
 
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room237 said:
-- Said the man on an internet forum.

Because only children use facebook. And all the "grown ups" that you have "real social interactions" with, they don't use facebook either, right?
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Well played, Sir, well played.

I don't condone FB - but I want to control on my phone if I want everything linked somehow to FB. If I can switch it off / delet it fine. Everyone else, please, go ahead and enjoy FB as long as you can! And please do not confuse using the internet with interactions with my friends. Here I discuss with people itnerested in Mac stuff but not about stuff in my private life!
 
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Mochi Hana said:
As long as it's not intrusive I don't care.
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The only places I can even think of (off the top of my head) where it would show up are in Settings where you enter your account information and adjust location preferences and on the list of choices when you go to share something (like a photo.)

If it's something you never use, I imagine you won't even notice it; and you might even forget it was ever introduced. Sort of like me with the Twitter integration. And that's coming from somebody who HAS a Twitter account.
 
Benjy91 said:
No, you prefer face to face social interactions, thats why you don't use Facebook. Not vecause "I am grown up". The fact you demonstrated your belief that only immature people or children use Facebook, just shows how immature you really are.
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The grown-up part didn't come from me, I just responded to it. I do not believe that only "immature people or children" are using it, never said that.
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JGowan said:
Ok -- so there's 800 Million Active Facebook users
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Apparently you did not read the reports about Facebook prior to their IPO. Those "active" users include users with multiple accounts and it is estimated that ~50% of those 800 million are for spamming other users.
 
ThisIsNotMe said:
The thing is where does the revenue come from???

Does Apple *pay* Facebook for the privilege of integrating its technology with Facebook?

Do we get SPAM in the system wide integrated Facebook news feed?

You have to have a revenue model. Just because you have a **** ton of users is meaningless, hence the "social networking" bubble.

If there is no advertising accompanying Facebook integration (major loss to users) or Apple isn't paying them on a per phone basis (don't get me started on this one) then it is meaningless to their bottom line.

Facebook isn't a social networking company. They are an advertising company. Just like Google isn't a search company, they are an advertising company. Advertising is their core business. They use social networking/search to drive page views. If a smoking chimp drove page views they would do that too (of wait, they did that with YouTube).
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What integrated newsfeed? Does twitter's feed come integrated Into iOS? No. The Facebook integration will be just like twitter. When you want to share something, you hit the share button and you will have the option to share to Facebook.

I would think that people who frequent this site would understand how this is going to work.
 
Liquorpuki said:
which is why you been posting on this msg board since 04
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Did your homework there, didn't ya...!

I talk to my friends. I use this board as I am intersted in Mac stuff. Different thing.

To be clear: I talk to my friends around the world regularly on the phone and don't even know if they have a FB account. It might be easier to exchange photos etc on FB and if you like it, go ahead and use it. My wife has it - but I don't like it for several reasons, one of them that suddenly upon googeling her name on a slow day to see how she is presented in her new job online a picture of my kids popped up - and that was creepy and too much.
 
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And like the twitter integration.....

Stella said:
This was always going to happen. Apple would be unwise to ignore facebook. They've already integrated twitter.. so adding more social networks, especially the largest, makes sense.

Social Networks, in whatever form, is here to stay.

If you don't use Facebook, you don't have to use the functionality.
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Apple will pretend it innovated when on other platforms you get the same "Deep Integration" by installing the app....and unlike on iOS with Twitter....you can opt out by not installing the app.

Try to remove the "Tweet" option in iOS....you can't...even when you do not provide a Twitter account.
 
mdntcallr said:
Not really a great idea to me that this will be baked in at the IOS level. What privacy protections are there????
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Well, you could simply choose NOT to use an iOS device. Works great for me and hundreds of millions of others.

Facebook integrated into an operating system... That certainly is something the world doesn't need.
 
Xenomorph said:
Go ahead, downvote me - I find people that seem to piss all over Facebook FAR more annoying than Facebook is. It's just so cool to hate the popular stuff, right?

It's a fun place to check up on friends, family, co-workers, etc. I get to see old friends and classmates that I hadn't kept up with in over a decade through Facebook.
I can see what family members are up to that live a thousand miles away.
It's a super easy way to share photos. Instead of bringing a stack of photos to a friend/family members' house, I just tell them to check Facebook.
It even acts as a centralized account system! Other sites & apps authenticate through Facebook now.

But ... it's really popular now. So all the hip people like to say how TERRIBLE it is. The reasons people give for hating Facebook just seem stupid.
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I totally agree with you - I mean, in the past, if government agencies wanted to know things about you, they had to look for it. Nowadays we made it much easier for them: we'll just provide them with information about ourselves.

And who cares governments and big corporations knows literally everything about you? It's not like there is a possibility that there is EVER going to be a government that is going to abuse all this information.

A dictator, a president or simply a big political party who hates homosexuals (or heterosexuals), blacks (or whites), muslims, christians, jews, disabled people, etc. will never ever use this information to prosecute these people. Never ever.

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I mean, I understand that people enjoy the fact that they can stay in touch with relatives and friends who are far, far away but it bothers me that no one seems to care about what Facebook does with all this information.

In the 1930s, for example, some governments already registered someone's religious believes. No one believed this information would be used against them by a future government. Later, as it turned out, Hitler used this information to find and prosecute jews. This is an extreme example, but this could happen again.
 
subsonix said:
I don't see the need for this, if you want Facebook on your phone surely there is an app for that..
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This is about sharing to facebook, and this is why twitter works hand in hand where people see something they like and they want to share it via facebook, now they can share it inside the app instead of closing out and going into the facebook app everytime they need to share something.
 
gri said:
Who cares. Not using FB and looking at the majority of comments not many people at least here are either. FB doesn't get my private information to make money (if they can even make money with it).
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Triple ditto! Screw Mark Sucky-berg with his questionable ethics and his "wanna makes the world more connected mission"..... with out personal data to the highest, no make that any bidder! I think not.

Big pass for me.
 
jdawgnoonan said:
Apple will pretend it innovated when on other platforms you get the same "Deep Integration" by installing the app....and unlike on iOS with Twitter....you can opt out by not installing the app.

Try to remove the "Tweet" option in iOS....you can't...even when you do not provide a Twitter account.
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You can uninstall the twitter app in iOS. Even signed in under settings you can still uninstall it.
 
F-Facebook...And social networking online....If I wanna meet some biotches I'll hit the bar and meet some in the flesh. Guys or girls whatever your into......
 
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