On Facebook’s earnings call Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg seemed to deny that the company would be developing its own branded smartphone, presumably an effort to put to rest growing speculation — mostly attributed to unnamed sources — about a Facebook phone under development at HTC. Building a smartphone, said Zuckerberg on the call, “wouldn’t really make much sense for us to do.” As nitpickers will hasten to point out, that’s not exactly a denial. Zuckerberg would not be the first chief to play coy about a project that his company was not yet ready to announce.
First off Facebook makes some terrible apps for platforms. They crash, don't perform what they should and never update to fix them soon enough. For Facebook its all about ads just as Google is. I am sure Facebook is considering hardware to better display those ads.
But you have to look at Google's track record on hardware to see that making hardware is tough. I don't see Facebook having the talent to do hardware. With Facebook user base shrinking already. Have we not already seen Facebook's brightest days?
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The Persistence of the Facebook Smartphone Myth
Posted by: Vivian Wagner July 28, 2012 05:00 AMOn Facebook’s earnings call Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg seemed to deny that the company would be developing its own branded smartphone, presumably an effort to put to rest growing speculation — mostly attributed to unnamed sources — about a Facebook phone under development at HTC. Building a smartphone, said Zuckerberg on the call, “wouldn’t really make much sense for us to do.” As nitpickers will hasten to point out, that’s not exactly a denial. Zuckerberg would not be the first chief to play coy about a project that his company was not yet ready to announce.
But you have to look at Google's track record on hardware to see that making hardware is tough. I don't see Facebook having the talent to do hardware. With Facebook user base shrinking already. Have we not already seen Facebook's brightest days?