Facebook Phone: Why Facebook May Join The Effort To Own Your Digital Soul

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 05:40 AM

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 06:29 AM

The train has already left the station. Based on IDC's recent numbers, Android's market share is now 59% and growing by 2% each month. Rim and Nokia are being completely squeezed out of the market. (My bet is that at least one of them will be gone within a year.) So why does Facebook think it can accomplish something that none of the other players have been able to accomplish? It's not like Facebook users have some incredibly high regard for the company.

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 06:44 AM

this will only speed up facebook's death...good riddance

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 10:14 AM

I'm sorry no one is gonna wanna own a Facebook phone. iPhone, Windows Phone and Android phones all have a niche of their own.

iPhone is still for the coolness factor. Almost all the socialites own an iPhone. They wouldn't touch another kinda phone.

Then you Android and Windows Phone competing for the same group of people. Those who want apps and games but don't wanna spend a lot of money for a phone.

Facebook I'm sure is trying to be in the middle but the fact is if you buy a Facebook phone it's pretty much telling everyone you are a social outcast who lives their life online.

Owning a Facebook phone over iPhone would be like saying you chose a Segway over a car. Or you'd rather go to a Star Wars convention than a party.

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 11:05 AM

Facebook is a bad idea, poorly executed, gone viral. Time to stomp the bug.

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 12:30 PM

Facebook Phone? April 1 already?
Good one.

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 01:06 PM

The fact is that IOS and Android already offer what consumers want... People just want to be able to access Facebook directly from their mobile devices just for entertainment purposes not for e-commerce ( for that they have other apps and websites ).
If what facebook is looking for is to create a platform on which they are not tied to other companies rules then creating their own platform is probably a good idea (you make your own rules) but they are loosing the objective for which a mobile device is created; it is supposed to bring consumers real benefits to them, people is not going to carry two mobile devices (cell phone and facebook phone ) to make their calls and other stuff and also carry a facebook phone just to do their posts, or check on friends statuses...
A device that is not multifunctional, nowadays is useless, and it is even primitive.

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 02:34 PM

So will Facebook call their phone the "Kin II"?

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 02:48 PM

edelbrp, on 29 May 2012 - 02:34 PM, said:

So will Facebook call their phone the "Kin II"?

What about Facebook for Android? Isnt that a Facebook phone right there?
Maybe they will invent the email , music, and video phone too?
Do they even know what a smartphone is and how it works?
And was there MySpace that has become so big and profitable?

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 02:56 PM

Thanks, I do not need another phone, not even gratis.
What bothers me is when I tried to check facebook Financial status there are no Assets but 15 billion dollars
invested by Investors but no tangibles.
There is also a Lawsuit against Facebook now in litigation. It is no wonder that facebook Stock offer has no takers.

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 03:25 PM

km, on 29 May 2012 - 02:48 PM, said:

edelbrp, on 29 May 2012 - 02:34 PM, said:

So will Facebook call their phone the "Kin II"?

I think what FB is trying to do is have their own ad platform. I'm not positive, but I think you have to use iAd on iOS and what ever Google's equivalent to that on Android. Ads and selling people's information are the only ways I know of for how FB makes money. Who knows, maybe they will force you to opt-in to letting FB have access to your phone logs, chat sessions, address book, etc.