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Zuckerberg: Android's Openness Offers Opportunity for 'Way Better' Experience Than iPhone

iPhone offers a better experience precisely because I don't ever need to see Facebook, if I don't want to.

I don't expect Zuck to agree with that.

Can't wait 'till Facebook is over.

Somebody needs to take an independent look at how many real users Facebook actually has. Everybody seems so enamoured with the idea that a service can have a billion users, that they don't give it anything like the scrutiny such claims demand. They need the scrutiny we apply to governments. Open and transparent Facebook? That'll be the day.

-At least he openly admits his goal in life is to become a member of the illuminati. And people are lining up to help him.-
 
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Weegee1 said:
"Apple and Facebook have at times had a strained relationship, as evidenced by difficulties related to Apple's now-defunct Ping social networking feature in iTunes"

How does this show that Apple and Facebook had a strained relationship? It just shows that whoever was in charge of Ping really blew it.
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Indeed. Lack of Facebook integration is not likely what really killed Ping. It was more like a kick after death was imminent. What killed Ping was not getting the deals to bring over the rest of Lala and never opening up to the indie artists that really needed the followers etc
 
I'm getting a little tired of iOS, but there's no way in hell I'd get a bloody Facebook phone.

Got rid of FB a long time ago and I hate the organisation and website with a passion for their lack of respect for privacy.
 
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Lancer said:
Recently (finally) updated my 3Gs to iOS6 and now FaceBook won't work properly, keeps crashing and it has all the updates.

I really hope people at Apple are listening as I don't want people to loose their trust and leave.
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Why does Apple need to be listening. Your issue is not Apple but Facebook not being able to right a proper app.
 
charlituna said:
Indeed. Lack of Facebook integration is not likely what really killed Ping. It was more like a kick after death was imminent. What killed Ping was not getting the deals to bring over the rest of Lala and never opening up to the indie artists that really needed the followers etc
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Also the fact that it pretty must just marketed music to you constantly.
 
Weegee1 said:
Also the fact that it pretty must just marketed music to you constantly.
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And unlike facebook and other social media - you needed to have an iOS device and/or iTunes running on your computer. At the time, iTunes was (and to some degree still is) a resource /memory hog. And it was too niche.
 
I don't know from the perspective of a 21 year old, I would say its late to the game. Twitter is far more relevant. I have a facebook and really do not get on it, for me its more of a photo album. In fact the smartest thing facebook has done is purchase instagram.
 
Stella said:
It was an example - ok a bad example. To change commonly used settings ( ie private browsing ) you have to go through levels of menus. Another example is wifi sync. It is cumbersome.
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Indeed ! Dont know why the bothered to put the option, probably most people dont even know about it, wifi sync too.
 
What a door knob ;-)
There nothing way better about any open flavour of android.
So far the openness I have seen contributes to crashes (yes, android crashes regularly) and sub par experience for the end user.
 
Tsuius said:
What a door knob ;-)
There nothing way better about any open flavour of android.
So far the openness I have seen contributes to crashes (yes, android crashes regularly) and sub par experience for the end user.
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I think that user experience is quite subjective, don't you?
 
avanpelt said:
"...we're excited that [Android] is open and that it allows us to build these great experiences" (Emphasis mine)

The "great experiences" part is pure marketing spin. Sure, they want us all to believe Facebook Home will be a "great experience"; but I, for one, doubt it will be. Except for what I think is a very small subset of the population, who in the heck wants Facebook content to be the first thing they see when their phone boots?! I don't; and I don't think very many other people want to, either.

Imagine. . .having to get past the picture of your friend's cat on Facebook before you can navigate to the dialer on your phone. No thanks. And do you really think Facebook isn't going to mine the heck out of all the data they can get their hands on and track things like which apps you're using Facebook Home to launch?
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I totally agree. And on that note, I find it pretty pathetic that developers are putting so much emphasis on the whole "see it before you click or touch it" thing.

You see the same thing in Windows 8 with the "live tiles" which are supposedly superior because they're constantly showing pictures and text of what they contain to save us the "hassle" of clicking on or touching something...

Have we gotten so lazy as a society that saving 2 seconds to access the information we might need has become an impediment to everyday life?

For that matter, all this stuff does is ruin the UI of the OS you're using. If the interface is constantly changing, you no longer have as many visual cues to figure out where you are and where your desired app is... and you have to run off memory alone.

So glad I don't have a smartphone. I'm sticking with my iPod touch and my flip-phone for the foreseeable future at this point.
 
I'm certainly not anti-Facebook, but I know its uses and I'm using it in ways that seem responsible to me. I might even be lax in some people's eyes, but...

That man is really talking a load of bullcrap right there.

This is one of the rare occasions where I don't feel bad not reading a news story and going straight to commenting.
It's beyond obvious why they prefer Android, nothing much needs to be added to that.

SOMETIMES I'm very thankful for iOS's limitations.

Glassed Silver:mac
 
samcraig said:
And unlike facebook and other social media - you needed to have an iOS device and/or iTunes running on your computer. At the time, iTunes was (and to some degree still is) a resource /memory hog. And it was too niche.
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Well you need a web browser or app open to use FB. Of course Ping needed a web interface (as well as other things) to be useful as social networking... "useful" in a relative sense since I don't find anything but IM and email all that useful.

I leave iTunes running all the time. With 2 iPhones, a pretty big library, and sharing enabled, 123MB on a computer with 6GB of RAM is a fair trade, much less than Safari and minuscule compared to Chrome. I don't understand why anyone calls it a resource hog.
 
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ZacNicholson said:
while it maybe more open, it's still not a better experience than iPhone
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This makes me giggle....what is the iPhone experience? Whether you like android or not, it's a better experience than iOS hands down.
 
MattInOz said:
So...
getting pocket money out of teenage girls has always been a solid business plan. Just ask the music industry.
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Very true. Also, ask Disney, Dillon's Candy Bar, Beats, and Silly Bandz.
 
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