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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Facebook Home Puts Facebook First and Everyone Else Second

Facebook Home Puts Facebook First and Everyone Else Second
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  1. RAYLOKEApril 20, 2013 at 2:02 AM

    The Risk

    This may, in fact, be the perfect phone to hand to your just-turned 13-year-old. They sign up for Facebook, you hyper-manage their friends list and then they live in the walled garden of Facebook.

    That should last about 3 months — or less. As soon as they go to school, their friends will mention or show them a new social platform that everyone else is on. They will quickly install the app (if it’s on Android) and then skip right on out of Facebook Land... er, Home.

    Soon, they’ll be asking how they get rid of Facebook Home so they can spend time in their new favorite social network.

    The Tech

    From a technical perspective, I’m impressed. It certainly looks like Facebook built an Android skin that can stand toe-to-toe with, say, the best that Amazon and Barnes & Noble have built. As I told my Twitter followers, Facebook Home is a lot like the Amazon Kindle Fire Android skin, but instead of being permanently fixed to one piece of hardware, it’s ready to be dropped on almost any Android handset that supports it.

    On the other hand, I’m not so sure why Mark Zuckerberg kept repeating that you’d get monthly Facebook Home software updates. Is that really what everyone wants? The odds that a few of them will be duds or introduce an unforeseen glitch are pretty high, especially since Facebook Home has its hooks so deeply into the OS and will eventually be on more and more somewhat disparate Android hardware. What happens when they start supporting tablets?

    Friendly Competitors

    I asked Google, Twitter and Apple for comment on Facebook Home. At the time of this writing, not a single one of them has responded. What can they really say? This is either an awesome idea that may have Google thinking about locking in Google+ as the home screen for future Android phones and Twitter working with Apple to create some new kind of integration for a future version of iOS, or it’s a massive dud that no one, not competitors or consumers, care about.

    As far as I’m concerned, the jury is still out. What do you think? Has Facebook hatched a brilliant idea or laid a giant blue egg?

    [Update: After we published, a Google spokesperson offered this comment, "The Android platform has spurred the development of hundreds of different types of devices. This latest device demonstrates the openness and flexibility that has made Android so popular."]

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  2. RAYLOKEApril 20, 2013 at 2:05 AM

    Facebook Home Puts Facebook First and Everyone Else Second http://on.mash.to/ZeeI9y via @mashable

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