Facebook recently came up with a new application for the android platform called "Facebook Home", a home screen based social experience app.
This application sits right on top of the android platform hiding the conventional home screen that you are used to and replaces it with your most recent Facebook notifications. This comes as a big blow to Google and why you ask, well you do spend a lot of time on Facebook right which is always in the best interests of the Facebook inc. Having this app is like having a endless supply of chocolates you can snack on all day long.
Now coming to actual point , why on earth didn't Google come up with this idea. Their strategy in promoting their social platform,Google Plus especially on the mobile platform seems very obvious now that Facebook has come up with the Home app. Moreover from what Mark Zuckerberg had to say, its Goolge's "Openness" that one would eventually blame for it slow down. Facebook is, in a way, taking a free ride towards global domination thanks to Android's Open nature. Androids open platform allows anyone to put up an app on the Google Play without much restrictions. Like adding fuel to fire, android's huge user base will leave facebook's stock price only one direction to follow- Up.
This application sits right on top of the android platform hiding the conventional home screen that you are used to and replaces it with your most recent Facebook notifications. This comes as a big blow to Google and why you ask, well you do spend a lot of time on Facebook right which is always in the best interests of the Facebook inc. Having this app is like having a endless supply of chocolates you can snack on all day long.
Now coming to actual point , why on earth didn't Google come up with this idea. Their strategy in promoting their social platform,Google Plus especially on the mobile platform seems very obvious now that Facebook has come up with the Home app. Moreover from what Mark Zuckerberg had to say, its Goolge's "Openness" that one would eventually blame for it slow down. Facebook is, in a way, taking a free ride towards global domination thanks to Android's Open nature. Androids open platform allows anyone to put up an app on the Google Play without much restrictions. Like adding fuel to fire, android's huge user base will leave facebook's stock price only one direction to follow- Up.
I think I've seen this kind of a social experience on a mobile somewhere.Oh, was it one the new Windows Phone OS ? Wonder why it didn't catchup. But it definitely gave facebook the much needed kick in the head. Coming to Google,it definitely provided it with the land to build its Billion dollar mall through Android platform; all of this at no cost at all.
This app will be available only on selected models for now like the Samsung Galaxy SIII and Note II from 12th April 2013.
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