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The article brings up a very good point about FB getting access to a lot more user data on the phone outside of their app since they essentially are replacing t
by yalogin 14y ago
The article brings up a very good point about FB getting access to a lot more user data on the phone outside of their app since they essentially are replacing the app launcher as well. Google gets access to all this data by owning the OS. FB in that sense made a brilliant play. It kind of corrupts google's data collection as well since all user interaction will be going through the FB Home app now.
Also its kind of naive to expect facebook to respect privacy when all they do is deal with data.
- wvenable 14y agoA launcher is just another app; it doesn't have any extra powers. It just happens be the app that is launched/restored when the home button is pressed -- that's it.
- Zikes 14y agoIt also replaces the app drawer, which means when you click an app icon to launch an app -- from either the home screen or the app drawer -- FB Home can make a note of it and send that information to FB.
- wvenable 14y agoIt'll only take someone with a network sniffer 5 seconds to discover if it does this and then there will be bad news about it for weeks. More likely they just want people to spend more time using Facebook.
- jetru 14y agoPray may I ask how anyone can use than information to harm me?
- skeletonjelly 14y agoThere's obvious privacy issues, you don't want say, your employer finding out you just used certain apps like a job seeker or something else that posts to Facebook that you use it and ergo Facebook automatically likes it for you like they do with keywords.
- orangethirty 14y agoYou think Google will let that happen? They are enemies competing for the same market. What I think will happen is that Facebook will fork Android, offer facebook edition phones, and simply one up google. How come? Google is awfully bad at marketing, and Facebook is not.
- wting 14y agoNot too long ago when iOS was released users jumped ship to Android due to the maps fiasco. If Facebook forks Android, do you think people are willing to give up Google's ecosystem in exchange for Facebook's? Even if you find Facebook chat / messages a viable replacement for Gtalk / Gmail, this still means no access to Google Play Store. Amazon was willing to create a second competing marketplace and sell its devices as media players, but Facebook will not have those in place if they fork Android. Do you think Facebook has enough leverage to pull this off? I don't think so, but since the phone is already in the works time will tell.
- myko 14y ago> Not too long ago when iOS was released users jumped ship to Android due to the maps fiasco. I don't think this really happened very much, but I'd love to see some numbers. Maybe a lot of tech enthusiasts waited on upgrading to stick with Google Maps until the new Google Maps came out. > Amazon was willing to create a second competing marketplace and sell its devices as media players, but Facebook will not have those in place if they fork Android. Do you think Facebook has enough leverage to pull this off? I would be surprised if Facebook went this way and didn't stay within the bounds other phone makers do and get Google certification. There is no reason why Google wouldn't allow Facebook to sell a phone with Google Play on it.
- LeeHunter 14y agoI'm not aware of any significant amount of Facebook marketing (outside of Facebook itself) but quite a lot of good Google marketing. I would have said Google was far more experienced and capable in that area.
- yalogin 14y ago