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> They have a fleet of phones in peoples' hands, great AI resources, and relationships with millions of businesses that want to sell things and services. Faceb
by morgante 10y ago
> They have a fleet of phones in peoples' hands, great AI resources, and relationships with millions of businesses that want to sell things and services.
Facebook has all those except a fleet of phones. But they have an app installed on practically every phone.
- walrus01 10y agoFacebook has become an indispensable app for the very low end $40-45 android smartphones. Such as the ones you can see for sale on AliExpress with 3.7" screens and Android 4.4 running on a very cheap MediaTek chipset. People who buy these in developing nations usually require that the handset retail vendor install the .APK for Facebook (though they don't know the process of HOW facebook gets installed without the Play store, they just know that "I want facebook on my phone), before buying the phone. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-facebook-loving-farmers-of-myanmar/424812/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-fa...
- chambo622 10y agoThis is fascinating, and also sounds like an extremely high-risk situation from a malware perspective. Isn't Facebook Lite [1] supposed to address this? I'm surprised they haven't solved distribution in these markets. [1] https://www.facebook.com/lite/ https://www.facebook.com/lite/