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Notes: 88 / 2 months ago from parislemon
Facebook Not Building A Phone*
*No Facebook employee is actually on an assembly line building phone hardware.
As I wrote:
By saying “Facebook is not building a phone,” what the company likely means is that they won’t be manufacturing their own hardware. Right. We never said that they were. As far as we know, Facebook doesn’t own hardware manufacturing plants, so how would they? This is the same type of semantic caveat Google kept using in saying they were not working a phone. Okay, there aren’t actually Google employees in the plants building them, just like there won’t be Facebook employees building them piece by piece.
And:
So, yes, technically they’re not physically building a phone, I suppose. But that’s sort of like saying Banana Republic isn’t in the clothing business because they outsource the actual shirt-making to Asia.
Facebook was playing a bullshit game of semantics. And I’m sure that will continue right up until the day they release the phone, at which point it won’t matter anymore.
Here’s all you need to know though: Facebook is building a phone because Facebook has to build a phone. They can say all they want about being everywhere, partnering with everyone, peace and love, yadda yadda. The fact of the matter is that mobile is the future of computing and it’s currently controlled by two gate masters: Apple and Google.
Right now, they play somewhat nicely with one another (in that Facebook has apps for both platforms). But what happens if the relationships change? Or what if either one of them decides to push their own social network on their phone? Like say, Google+ on the Galaxy Nexus…
The point is that if Facebook wants to be a big boy company, they can’t afford to be one code push away from banishment on the important platforms. In fact, if you want to be a dominant player, you have to own the platform. Facebook, of all companies, knows this.
So no, there’s no Facebook Phone. Until a year from now when there is one. Consider it fait accompli.
Right on, MG.
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Notes: 7 / 8 months agoTurn your Facebook profile into a motion art piece.
A seriously impressive demo made by Intel. If you use Facebook a lot, you need to try this!
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9 months ago
Did you know?
Total online email usage declined 8 percent in 2010, but among 12-17 year olds it fell a whopping 59%! Thanks Zuckerberg!
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Notes: 361 / 10 months ago from deviantart
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Notes: 84 / 1 year ago
Fact: Canadians spend more time online than people of any other country
- Canadians spend an average of 41 hours on the internet every month
- More Canadians visit YouTube each month (21 million) than any other country per capita
- Canada is #1 in the world with Facebook penetration (51.2% of population)
- Canadians check Wikipedia more than anyone else with 16 pages per person per month
(Source: The Globe and Mail)
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Notes: 12446 / 1 year ago from -dropdeadgorgeous (originally from breetheebee)
True. I never mention Tumblr to anyone on Facebook or in real life. This is my little private retreat. If anyone tries to look me up they will easily find my Tumblr, but I feel like someone who goes to that effort probably deserves to find my Tumblr. Same thing the other way, I don’t put my Facebook out on Tumblr because I don’t want things I say here percolating into my real life.
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Notes: 6 / 1 year ago
![This is the first thing I’m going to do once winter break starts. =]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldc6ysDYGI1qzi7clo1_500.jpg)
This is the first thing I’m going to do once winter break starts. =]
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Notes: 1 / 1 year ago
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1 year ago
Well said, but I hate Comic Sans!
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