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Facebook Launches App Center With Over 600 Apps
Mattygfunk1 writes "Facebook is following the leader and launching its own app store. The move is intended to encourage longer browsing sessions from users and attract attention from software developers, in addition to allowing more personalized advertising. 'Each app will generally allow the user to install it as a Facebook application. However, a "send to mobile" will also appear if the app has a mobile app from either the Apple iOS App Store or else the Google Play store. In either case, the app can be sent to a user's phone and can be installed there.' It's currently only available in the U.S., with more countries to follow in the coming weeks."
No Thanks...
The way things are going, buying Angry Birds on every new platform is going to be the "buy the White Album again" of the app generation.
Hopefully they are checking the apps for malware. It sounds like it would be a great place to target users.
This could be the first step to fb making a smartphone for dumb people.
naah they're not they're just gonna have to tone it down a notch, the unwillingness of people to change should not be underestimated, the vampirism of what's called investors neither, nothing really happened, a bubble of air got so hot all the oxygen spontaneously combusted and some people are left with a few blisters, stocks have no 'not satisfied-get money back' label on them as far as i know, fb still has what, about one seventh of the world number of accounts? if only for brand name recognition its an invaluable advertising tool, i'm sure there's a busipsy here and there who sees that, the fixation on unlimited growth however might be a cold shower in these years and some to come
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?
My account is where app and game requests and chain statuses go to die.
It has probably let me hang on to the "classic Facebook" look instead of Timeline, because "this app will install timeline." No...no it won't.
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BMO
I can't wait to run applications provided by an organization whose entire purpose is to collect every possible bit of data about me and sell it to others. I'm eagerly looking forward to the experience of needing an internet connection for my computer to do things that it's always been able to do on its own before.
Even better, it's gonna be awesome that I now need Facebook's permission to run those applications, each and every time I want to.
Man! I'm psyched for this. Hope you guys are too!
I tried to read an article from wall street journal, and I get a damn pop-up telling me that I am able to install their facebook reader app. As I wasnt sure why I couldnt just read the article at wsj.com using my "browser app" I just closed the tab and went on with my life. I am pretty sure I didnt lose out on much. If they really want me to share with my friends, I will, as long as the article is something I feel like sharing and discussing. Just because I look at something doesnt mean that it should be publicized and tracked.
Because anyone that's ever used the iPhone or Android Facebook apps know that, you know, apps are just what Facebook excels at.
Call me when they can produce one of their own that isn't a steaming pile of terribad.
There's a spot in User Info for World of Warcraft account names? Really?
Confidante, not cosmonaut.
All these app systems, walled gardens, whatever. It's sort of an anti-Java philosophy: Write everywhere. Run nowhere.
There's room for one, maybe two or 3 at best. It's just like when Atari and Commodore were big home machines. Maybe you can port to two, and then you're done. The long tail of platforms isn't worth it. Welcome to no. 3 at best, FB.
Instead of advertising, how about creating cheap, useful APIs for developers to enable things like mobile gaming against friends, tightly integrated with Facebook? They have an opportunity to build out a service layer that is connected to all of the popular games and ecommerce sites and that provides value independent of advertising. How hard would it be for Amazon to get an inexpensive service to discretely figure out social graphs so they can show you products your friends and family are buying?
From TFA:
The service, called App Center, debuts with 600 applications, including Zynga Inc. (ZNGA)’s “Draw Something” game
Huh? How is someone going to play "Draw Something" effectively on a laptop or desktop with no touch screen? Have you ever tried to draw with a mouse or trackpad? Haha.
If you want to play on a smartphone or tablet, of course, you'd just download the native app from the app store/marketplace.
This looks like a pure PR play, one of many that will prop up the Fakebook stock until the early investors have exited to their satisfaction, and FB employees with options have been sufficiently comforted that the stock will not drop below their strike prices before the end of the year.
I love this sport. It's like watching a huge train wreck in slow motion, except that no one will be directly killed by it.
Troll successful! Down periscope!
Don't want.
I'd just as soon buy shoelaces or beer from them.
if only for brand name recognition its an invaluable advertising tool
Ubiquitous brand recognition is only useful if people don't think the brand stinks. I remember a well-known brand back in the 80s called the "Yugo".
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Just ignore Facebook. I have an account, and honestly I'm thinking about cancelling it. It's really a cool thing talking to people face to face as opposed to through a medium that limits us to what people want us to hear as opposed to what people really are (while of course making a few people exceptionally wealthy).
The only thing I ever thought much about using Facebook for was pictures. After re-reading the EULA and ToS I had to re-think that, and now won't even upload a picture.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
what a refreshing change from the other spam trolls we've been seeing lately
Good thing the retards decided to overvalue the stock by ten fold.
Hope they get sued to the hilt.
Ha! Faggot.
Facebook is just building on Google's model, yet somehow they do it in significantly more irritating fashion.
Say what you wish about Google, at least the advertisements they offer up seem to have some relevance to what I want or need. Facebook seems intent on flogging sketchy weight-loss plans, corrugated steel garages, debt-reduction schemes, and criminal pardons. Somehow most of these scream out SHYSTER! BEWARE!
And that's without EVER accepting invitations to whatever Zygna game, poll, friend finder or other nasty thing that some relative has signed up for.
Ultimately for me it comes down to one thing: I generally trust Google, but not Facebook.
Three Squirrels
So, this is so I can leak more of my personal info to them and they can fail more efficiently at protecting it, right?
I hope this comment is well received... I could have moderated instead!
Persecutors will be violated!
So, the company wants to enter into the app market against Apple and Google. Yeah that's an easy one. I give this a 9 out of 10 chance of failure in the short to mid run. This reminds me of Microsoft entering the phone market. Such a brash, so full of ego, "we are gonna take over" kind of approach to a market that is well already.....crowded. It is like a strategy designed around the press release to drive retail investors to the stock, its a borderline scam. How could management really think they can win that market. There is no innovation There is no competitive or comparative or economic or platform advantage in their plan. It is a plan vanilla "me too" play, only weaker because its on others' OS and platforms. This stock is going to continue tanking. This type of strategy is a red flag to the high probability that the management and board have no idea how to capitalize on their "registered user base". No clue. They are clutching at air now. Nokia could not get it right. Microsoft could not get it right. RIM is struggling. Motorola is all but a brand. Hey how many people are using their "Samsung Market" or "Sony Market". FB thinks they are smarter than those guys because they had a viral photo and drivel social networking site and the biggest IPO (cough *ponzi* cough) in social networking history? They think they can drive the smartphone market with games, crowding out Google and Apple? What is their expected market share in two years? This is destined for failure. Stock at 10$ by end of year? Could be single digits if they keep coming up with plans like this.
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