Facebook Home for Google Android

[Sushubh]

you are missing the actual feature. the chat is available in a layer above the app you have open. so you do not have to switch away to continue chatting. this is a much better experience.

Won't this be a killer on limited data plans? >_>

lol. you are worried about data plans? i am thinking about battery life. realistically speaking, american companies do not really care about the third world countries. the new version of google+ can consume shit load of bandwidth the way it loads images and comments while scrolling down.
i have read a bunch of articles about facebook home and htc first. i do not recollect reading about how hard it would be on the battery life.

 

[LordSpymaster]

realistically speaking, american companies do not really care about the third world countries.

Sums it all up.

 

[Sushubh]

https://broadband.forum/facebook-releases-faqs-facebook-home-project-43795/
https://goo.gl/NJvE5

 

[Sushubh]

Shaw then sarcastically praised Facebook for supposedly taking Microsoft’s ideas and applying them to Android, which Shaw said was badly in need of a more human touch.
“We understand why Facebook would want to find a way to bring similar functionality to a platform that is sadly lacking it,” he said. “But as Android owners know, that platform is complicated enough without adding another skin built around another metaphor, on top of what is already a custom variant of the OS. So, while we applaud Facebook for working to give some Android owners a taste of what a ‘people-centric’ phone can be like, we’d humbly like to suggest that you get the real thing, and simply upgrade to a Windows Phone.”

http://www.readability.com/articles/lneaz2lw

lol.


Microsoft is afraid that Facebook Home might end up on more Android devices than all Windows Phone.
I tuned into the coverage of the Facebook Home event yesterday and actually had to check my calendar a few times.
Not to see if it was still April Fools Day, but to see if it was somehow still 2011.Because the content of the presentation was remarkably similar to the launch event we did for Windows Phone two years ago.
When we sat down with a blank sheet of paper and designed Windows Phone, we put three words on the wall to guide the team: “Put People First”.

http://www.readability.com/articles/jgsm7rgo

 

[Sushubh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mx_GzNlQOxI
https://broadband.forum/facebook-home-airplane-advertisement-43807/

 

[Sushubh]

https://goo.gl/eVirh
leaked pre-release builds available.

 

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[Nishant]

I was not following this topic much. If the app is going to be a default launcher, I'm getting rid of Facebook app for good.

 

[Sushubh]

Facebook Home is not being released by Google. You realize that right?

 

[Nishant]

Hehe right layful:
But would they be taking down the current Facebook app?

 

[Sushubh]

I mean I get what you mean. Facebook is right now not replacing their basic Facebook app with Facebook Home. But they did make a statement on the lines of Facebook Home is the new Facebook. So maybe... just maybe... They might ditch the regular Facebook app and make Facebook Home their primary offering. I doubt it would happen but then Facebook loves to do ridiculous stuff.