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1 month ago
My cheap but
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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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3 months ago
Holy shit that’s a big phone. And it has a screen resolution the same as my laptop’s.
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10 months ago
Ain’t that a slick phone. Yep, it’s mine. =D
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10 months ago
My totally hipster phone, yes at 2 in the freakin morning!
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Notes: 2 / 11 months ago
I’m about to do a complete reset on my obsolete HTC T-Mobile Dash.
It’s an ‘06 phone so it’s positively ancient in cell phone time, but it was cutting-edge back then and it’s living a healthy life even half a decade later. In fact, I still get curious looks and questions about it all the time. It runs Windows Mobile, so it’s always choppy and crashy, but it impressed me with features like contacts sync with Gmail and automatic online backup.
Bye bye, dear phone. It’s been a good year: I’ve traveled thousands of miles with you and slept with you on all those lonely nights. Now it’s time to send you to a new home.
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Notes: 3 / 12 months ago
Isn’t my phone gorgeous? I say yes.
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1 year ago
Now that, is what I would consider a hot phone. HTC EVO Shift 4G.
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1 year ago
Like a boss. I got 1st place on TypeRacer using my phone! 37wpm. Ain’t bad, eh?
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1 year ago
My phone’s been broken for over a week, which means no Tumblr on the go
But I think I’ll actually delay fixing it for another week so that I can get focused on Finals.
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