News - The HTC First and the Facebook Home family of apps

[HEXUS]

HTC’s smartphone is built for Facebook Home, a new Android social app suite.

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[Neostar]

I like the fact that this is an app launcher, so if we are bored we can just uninstall it

[Whiternoise]

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A bit too close to the 1st for me. People popping up while I use apps? Log in to your phone and the first thing you see is a continual stream of updates? Good lord no. Kill it with fire.

[Kanoe]

So an app thats constantly eating away your data allowance and then racking up big extra data bills.

Dear god no!!

(And if you think about just using it on the Wifi when you are at home what is the point as you have your PC, laptop, tablet there already and the experience is most likely better on them than your phone)

[Saracen]

Each to his/her own, I guess, but personally, there is no way I would give the likes of Facebook that level of access, whether potential or actual, to data about me. Even if they gave me the phone, and paid the monthly running costs in full, I would not be prepared to carry it, let alone use it, unless I could be absolutely sure not a single root or tendril of this remained on it.

[Smudger]

So if Facebook can supply this via Google Play, why can't HTC and Samsung supply Sense/Touchwiz via Play, and then update their phones more quickly?

[NightshadowUK]

The only good I can see in this is maybe, just maybe, the knock-on effect will be FB finally fixing their standard Android app.

[Percy1983]

What is facebook?

[Smudger]

Apparently, you can just disable the Facebook home rubbish, and violá, you've got vanilla Android. Not sure if this means you'll get updates any quicker though...

[jnutt]

So if Facebook can supply this via Google Play, why can't HTC and Samsung supply Sense/Touchwiz via Play, and then update their phones more quickly?

I like the sound of that

[Phaz0r18]

So if Facebook can supply this via Google Play, why can't HTC and Samsung supply Sense/Touchwiz via Play, and then update their phones more quickly?

Seconded.

And I agree, I don't think anyone besides Zuckerberg himself uses Facebook enough for this to be anywhere near a worthwhile experience for people...