>Who in their right mind would buy a device from Facebook

I completely agree with you on this, yet a lot of people are buying Oculus sets

You can't really do a lot of tracking with Oculus.

> Who in their right mind would buy a device from Facebook

Probably a lot of people if it was cheap enough and marketed right.

You might be surprised people are so naive. If you just do following thing I would say it would be so easy for facebook to capture market.

Release a phone with: - 0 Bloatware, - High Ram/ CPU/ functions - 100% privacy and no ads (initial days to allure consumers) - Cheap price

People will purchase them and after 3-4 year add tracking slowly in name of feedback etc. There will be some loss but for long term I think facebook should do it, or it will be wiped off from market.

If people buys oculus it shouldn't be that hard.

They just need to make it cheap and good enough. And of course have an ironclad EULA about the tracking and spying stuff that people agree on.

And make it hard enough to root so that people just don't get a cheap phone and install vanilla Android on it.

Rooting phone is already been futile, since many banking app etc. doesn't work anymore. We lost it badly :(

Allowing banking on a rooted phone is an impossible operation as far as the bank is concerned.

How can they be sure the user with the rooted phone is Very Good At Security and rooted their phone on purpose instead of someone who got their phone hacked and has spyware listening to their banking logins?

The safe bet for banks is to deny all banking on rooted phones, that way they don't need to argue about lost money, they can just go "phone rooted, not our problem, we did our best to prevent it".

How can banks be sure that computer, the browser, the os people use is very good at security?

It should scream the people that phone is rooted. But, denying services is inimical.

Its not just banking app I have started to see a lot of app behaving differently when phone is rooted. Rooting generally means people can mitm app, which app developer obviously doesn't like. Its more about control than security in my opinion.

Make it so that it would always have the latest Facebook features and sell it at/below cost. Market it heavily and you would see a lot of people buy it because it is the cheapest available phone.

I’m curious how many portals and oculus devices have sold. Especially portals: having one of those in my house seems unimaginable to me.

Perhaps under a different name. Lots of people bought Oculus.

All they need is a good price and the people will come.