It's easy to see Home as a failure because Facebook is so huge, but it's an early product. They can't develop all the capabilities to ship a mobile phone witho

It's easy to see Home as a failure because Facebook is so huge, but it's an early product. They can't develop all the capabilities to ship a mobile phone without getting their hands dirty, and Windows and Blackberry are proving that a good mobile OS doesn't mean you have distribution. They have "Facebook phones" in stores and they didn't have to: - invest in hardware - develop a new OS - fork Android - bootstrap retail distribution This approach is eerily like Tesla, where even if your initial product doesn't match your end goal, you have a realistic path from reality to vision. Remember, when the iPhone came out, it had 2G internet, no copy/paste, no apps, and it cost $600. It wasn't competitive with the phone marketplace (it was better, but sold few absolute units compared to the whole market). But it got better every year, and sales ~doubled every year, and now there's no comparison between an original iPhone and the iPhone 5. I'm not a FB fan but congrats to them for shipping!