05-28-2012, 04:51 AM | #1 |
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Facebook OS vs Android and Apple?
According to "informed", long-running rumors, Facebook will come out with a Smartphone soon. What I didn't know, and what surprises me most is that it will have its own OS.
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05-29-2012, 02:00 AM | #2 |
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Rumor has it they might buy Opera.
Does the world need another mobile OS? and will developers jump on board? This is a two horse race - Android and iOS. No one else stands a chance for a significant share of the market; not even Windows. |
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Answer to the second question - Dunno. The last part is unfortunately looking more and more true. |
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Never happen. Facebook is a one trick pony. They've succeeded with Facebook and will continue to succeed because most normal users are happy with what they have and too dumb to look for a better alternative. But they won't change to a new OS just for Facebook-why would they? They already have it on their own OS.
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I could see a facebook phone being largely successful, just because there's a boat-load of people who pretty much live and breathe the Zuckerberg kool-ade. But, being a serious player in the mobile OS market? Yeah, I don't think so.
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It's very hard to speculate rumors when it's not been proven but it's somewhat good to let us know some new trends and changes on the world of mobile apps and OS.
It's just awkward to see facebook want to reign over everything to get some spotlight. What would we expect next? "facebook smartphone"?LOL Last edited by pdurrant; 06-04-2012 at 05:00 AM. |
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My take is FB creates unreliable/glitchy software, I'm thinking the last thing anybody wants is a smartphone created by FB. =X= |
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This would only work of course, if Facebook Inc. decided to kill all Facebook apps on other OS', which would be a major death blow to themselves. I don't see *that* happening. |
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