Facebook Phone
The rummors of a Facebook phone just won’t die out. Facebook, just like the rest of the online sites, is increasingly relying on being accessed through the mobile devices, but so far it seems like it has been hard for them to monetize their ads through the Android and iOS apps. Closer they are to the phone’s actual ecosystem, better are they to leverage their visibility and offer ads that users may click on. All the other tech giants seem to be betting heavily on directly controlling very device through wich the content is being consumed. Apple, Google, and Microsoft all have their own mobile operating systems, while Amazon provides a heavily modified version of Android on its Kindles that essentially turns these devices into Amazon storefronts. From this perspective not controlling the device itself seems to be a way to technological irrelevance of sorts.
Even though a stand-alone social network themed phone may be an overkill, a recent story from the Wall Street Journal suggests that Facebook will team up with HTC for a device that will have Facebook’s home screen as the default page on its start screen. I am not sure that I would necessarily want to use such a device, even though I am a heavy Facebook user. It will be interesting to see how users react to it if and when it gets shipped.
About the Author
Bojan Tunguz
Bojan Tunguz was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he and his family fled during the civil war for the neighboring Croatia. Over the past two decades he has studied, lived and worked in the United States. He is a theoretical physicist with degrees from Stanford and University of Illinois. Tunguz has taught physics at several prominent liberal arts colleges and has been writing about physics, science and technology for more than a decade. He also has a wide spectrum of interests, and reads and writes about current events, society, culture, religion and politics. Over the years he has reviewed many of the books that he has read, and posted his reviews on various online outlets. In 2011 he had become a top 10 reviewer on Amazon.com, where he continues to be very active. Aside from reading and writing, Tunguz enjoys traveling, digital photography, hiking, and fitness. He resides with his wife in Indiana. You can follow my review updates on the following pages as well: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tunguzreview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tunguzreviews Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104312842297641697463/posts
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