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A comment on Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report [pdf] by walrus01 on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @06:42PM (#11818878)
Facebook has become an indispensable app for the very low end $40-45 android smartphones. Such as the ones you can see for sale on AliExpress with 3.7" screens and Android 4.4 running on a very cheap MediaTek chipset.

People who buy these in developing nations usually require that the handset retail vendor install the .APK for Facebook (though they don't know the process of HOW facebook gets installed without the Play store, they just know that "I want facebook on my phone), before buying the phone.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-fa...

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Re:Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends Report [pdf] by chambo622 on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @09:32PM (#11819730)
This is fascinating, and also sounds like an extremely high-risk situation from a malware perspective. Isn't Facebook Lite [1] supposed to address this? I'm surprised they haven't solved distribution in these markets.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/lite/

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