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Facebook’s Mobile Chief: Within 1-2 Years, We’re Going To Be A Mobile Company

Joe Tweets ·  Top Commenter · Redmond, Washington
Achievement image = #purewin.
Reply · 26 ·  · September 27 at 4:31pm

Devon Nullz ·  Top Commenter · Bent over at Shell Oil Company
They can't be considered a mobile company yet, given how much and how often the FB mobile app freezes and crashes.
Reply · 18 ·  · September 27 at 3:54pm

Philip Keighley · Software Engineer at Resist Design
Whatever you do for the mobile, Facebook, I implore you; Do not make the option default selected to load all friends' numbers into the phone or stuffing the calendar with every friends' birthday. Stop it.
Reply · 5 ·  · September 27 at 9:08pm

Matt Barrie ·  Top Commenter · Sydney, Australia
$1000 says they come out with a Facebook phone. They own the social network. The phone is the place for it to be. Plug in Facebook credits and you have a good shot at knocking Apple off the post.
Reply · 5 ·  · September 27 at 5:26pm

Matt Barrie ·  Top Commenter · Sydney, Australia
The end of telephone numbers.
Reply · 4 ·  · September 27 at 5:27pm

Philip Keighley · Software Engineer at Resist Design
Microsoft Kin. Then again, Microsoft has a history of ruining things.
Reply ·  · September 27 at 9:05pm

Tom Hessert · University of Notre Dame
@ Matt Barrie. I would pay $1000 per year to not have to use phone numbers. I fully support the facebook phone...
Reply ·  · September 28 at 6:36am
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Greg Maletic ·  Top Commenter · Special Projects at Panic
If only there were a way to use Facebook on the iPad.
Reply · 3 ·  · September 27 at 4:49pm
Vinoth ·  Top Commenter (signed in using Hotmail)
Safari.
Reply · 1 ·  · September 27 at 6:02pm

Dave Nattriss · Executive Secretary at FB Developer Garage London
"If you want to get the Facebook fix, there are a number of [iPad] apps that weren’t developed by us."
Reply ·  · September 27 at 6:47pm

Russell Miller · Portland, Oregon
I use MyPad+ (no relation to them at all). It works reasonably well for me. I would like an officially supported app, but it's ok.
Reply · 1 ·  · September 28 at 8:54am

Jeff Durso ·  Top Commenter · MIT
So I guess in 1 to 2 years we'll say "Welcome to 2009!"
Reply · 2 ·  · September 27 at 4:38pm

Dushyant Vaghela ·  Top Commenter · Founder at Feelings2share.com
Dude Facebook is going to become a CLOUD company. Like all other software firms out there - hosting data / functionality on a remote server 'n allowing you to access it through different means is where it's at. They're only saying mobile because of the way that smart phones are becoming popular. When a new technology comes along (Internet TV) then they'll be on the TV too.
Reply · 1 ·  · September 28 at 6:43am

Delali GadEl ·  Top Commenter · Editor at HubBlogs with GADEL
Did he called Africa a country or what?
Reply · 1 ·  · September 28 at 5:14am

David Abraham ·  Top Commenter · Works at DFMedia Studios
They've got a good shot at it.
Reply · 1 ·  · September 27 at 3:19pm

Sid Shetye · San Diego, California
I've worked deep inside some key players of the mobile phone industry for most of last decade. So my question to FB would be, why get into the crowded space of cellphone hardware? There are already many, many players in this field, with extensive working background. I hope they mean to only partner with them vs develop something ground up. I've not seen the NPV analysis but my guess is they want to use the FB platform to:
- Enter the mobile payment business (Google's NFC payments).
- Have such payments made on products/services offered on FB (+location based). This puts them in the Groupon business too.
It will be scary at that point since they'd control the customers, the vendors AND the payments themselves.
Reply ·  · September 28 at 11:14am

Rich Peck · CEO at Frontline Utilities Ltd
Dude Facebook is going to become a CLOUD company. Like all other software firms out there - hosting data / functionality on a remote server and allowing you to access it through different means is where it's at. They're only saying mobile because of the way that smart phones are becoming popular. When a new technology comes along (Internet TV) then they'll be on the TV too!
Reply ·  · September 28 at 12:54am

Haig Sakouyan
They're an everything company, just like any other that develops for multiple devices. If they stopped developing for the desktop and only focused on mobile, then they would be a mobile company. Until then they aren't one.
Reply ·  · September 28 at 3:55pm

Lincoln Maurice · Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia
Facebook's apps for iPhone, WP7 and Android suck, I'd be incredibly wary of installing an OS they create. It's clunky, derails and is unintuitive.
Reply ·  · September 28 at 4:03pm

Moe James ·  Top Commenter
If you own a FB Fanpage after Oct.1 you are in Trouble! NO rumor, fully documented on FB site! Here is the complete story: http://dld.bz/fbrudeawakening.
Reply ·  · September 28 at 8:06am

Shanmuga Subramanian ·  Top Commenter · Chennai (Madras), India
Browser websites on facebook - http://apps.facebook.com/textonly/ (Easy sharing).

This is my gift for facebook :D (Now another reason for anyone not to close the facebook window).
Reply ·  · September 27 at 3:51pm

Eric Mauch · Fargo, North Dakota
Maybe they will follow the Netflix way of thinking...Seperate the Mobile part of the business and we'll have to have 2 accounts, 2 updates, 2 friend lists :)
Reply ·  · September 28 at 6:40am

David Holladay · Chief Guroo at Guroo Technologies
most 3rd party iPad FB apps are just OK...(except for a few like SliceBook) so will be good to see an official version from the source...
Reply ·  · September 27 at 11:16pm

Ciarán Norris ·  Top Commenter · Dublin, Ireland
"What else can they really hope for?"
A way to start monetising mobile.
Reply ·  · September 28 at 1:38am

Seano Gbt
I just took fb off my phone as I felt it was becoming too big a part of my life.
Reply ·  · September 28 at 5:56am

Brett Wilcox · Nordhoff High
Thank you! We all spend so much time in cyber that we're all becoming socially retarded. It's time to put down the toys and go outside an play... frisbee anyone?
Reply · 5 ·  · September 28 at 7:14am

George Tinari ·  Top Commenter · Notre Dame High School
No iPad app. No mobile company. Simple as that.
Reply ·  · September 27 at 4:23pm

Duan Dao · Real Estate & Zoning Manager at T-Mobile USA
cool, can you make a bid for T-Mobile then?
Reply ·  · September 27 at 3:25pm

Max Woolf ·  Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
Did he say anything about the iPad app?
Reply ·  · September 27 at 3:10pm

Max Woolf ·  Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
^< didn't read article
Reply · 2 ·  · September 27 at 3:10pm

Jeff Panikar · Los Angeles, California
Just wondering.

Do you get paid for each Reply? :P
Reply · 2 ·  · September 27 at 3:18pm

Max Woolf ·  Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
Jeff Panikar Nope, but if anyone is interested in paying me per reply I won't say no! :)
Reply · 2 ·  · September 27 at 3:20pm
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Ravi Sheth ·  Top Commenter · Garfield High School, Garfield, NJ
more like asap.
Reply ·  · September 27 at 3:46pm

Abdullah AlShalabi · Barcelona, Spain
They are just copying the idea of the Spanish Facebook Tuinti.com. Tuinti has been bought by Telefonica and now provide mobile services through a prepaid simcard called Tu.
http://blog.tuenti.com/en/tu-launches-monthly-plans/
Reply ·  · September 27 at 5:18pm

Knut Grossmann · Principal Consultant at Games Without Borders
Not impressed! They will have Facebook on mobile devices? Or their own mobile device? Big deal. Call me when they start making dishwashers and bicycles.

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