I just don't see this working out for well for Facebook. History is littered with examples of successful software companies that thought their brilliance extended to hardware. It almost never works out; they inevitably rediscover not only that hardware is an order of magnitude more challenging to get to market than software, but customers are much less forgiving about flaws and bugs when they can't be fixed with a simple update.
It's not just software to hardware transition that is hard, but web app to consumer device. Right now, Facebook controls all updates and can make all changes completely under their control. With a Facebook phone, any update will need to go through the phone manufacturer and the carrier to get it out. And we have seen how hard it is for Google to get phones up to the latest release.
It leads to poverty, unemployment, and protests in the US.
And the living expenses won't be lower for much longer when companies realize they can charge you what they want and enough consumers will pay.
So, you believe people making $4/hr will still pay whatever companies want them to pay? With what money?
The API is at https://developers.google.com/+/api/
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From the link: "The Google+ API currently provides read-only access to public data." Or as Steve Yegge refers to it: "the Stalker API".
You are right. The Droid Eris is unusual for an HTC. It came out 2 versions behind and only got one update (though it was a big one). Possibly HTC figures if you bought a 1.5 phone in late 2009 (after 2.0 was out) you just don't care about the version. Their reputation comes from the MyTouch and the EVO. The HTC Hero also is pretty tragic.
I stand corrected.
The Eris basically is the HTC Hero.
You're right those are great commercials. HTC also does a wonderful job of keeping their phones up to data and has a great reputation. Had Verizon not signed Apple I would have gotten an HTC.
I just wish they did battery life.
My wife has an HTC (the Droid Eris) and she would disagree about HTC keeping their phones up to date. She is stuck on Android 2.1 which means she can't even move her apps to the SD card. I rooted her phone and put Cyanogen mod on it, but it's not one of the main phones supported by Cyanogen mod, so it takes awhile for new releases of that to get to her. And after seeing that the iPhone 3GS (which was released before her phone) is still being supported and getting new releases, she decided that her new phone would be the iPhone 4S.
“One thing we must be absolutely clear on is that our analysis does not find any inherent fault with the Android platform,” WDS vice president of Marketing Tim Deluca-Smith said.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.