Facebook Home suffering from poor Google Play reviews: 48% of users award 1 star

Re:Facebook Home suffering from poor Google Play reviews: 48... by Pxtl on Friday April 12, 2013 @07:36PM (#5541773)

Does facebook offer an email system? That would explain making the emails a second-class citizen if you're meant to use your facebook email address instead... after all, making an Android device that moves away from the supremacy of the Google account is actually an interesting idea.

It does seem like Facebook skipped a step here... I mean, look at the massive suite of web-applications that MS put together before debuting their WinPhone7 thing. With Facebook's experience in webapps and their gigantic post-IPO warchest, I'd expect to see a Facebook branded answer to the MS's Live/Skydrive webapps and Google's family of products alongside the phone so they could offer a fully no-Google-account Android system.

But yeah, that other stuff is pretty damning.

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Re:Facebook Home suffering from poor Google Play reviews: 48... by fudged71 on Saturday April 13, 2013 @12:37AM (#5542562)

For many young people, Facebook Messages have mostly replaced the functionality that Email is typically used for. It has also tied in the Chat/IM/IRC functionality with the integration with Groups, as well as getting people to sign up to send their SMS through Facebook Messenger. You can share files and photos. They have replaced a massive chunk of communication for a lot of people.

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Re:Facebook Home suffering from poor Google Play reviews: 48... by nwh on Saturday April 13, 2013 @12:40AM (#5542569)

Yes. You can send emails to people's usename @facebook.com, and they can send them out too.

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