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Facebook Cancels UK Launch of HTC First
redletterdave writes "After AT&T unceremoniously canceled the HTC First after just one month on the market, Facebook announced the first phone running the Facebook Home operating system will not be launching in the U.K., as originally planned. From Facebook: 'Following customer feedback, Facebook has decided to focus on adding new customization features to Facebook Home over the coming months. While they are working to make a better Facebook Home experience, they have recommended holding off launching the HTC First in the UK, and so we will shortly be contacting those who registered their interest with us to let them know of this decision. Rest assured, we remain committed to bringing our customers the latest mobile experiences, and we will continue to build on our strong relationship with Facebook so as to offer customers new opportunities in the future.'"
Awesome!
Try harder.
Trolling is a art,
if he had the chance?
he had the chance. we had mobiles back then - and facebook would have been just another blip on the mobile scene, another path nobody gives a fuck about. another booth at 3gsm.
yes, it's a thing from the article.. and htc is fucked. they always kind of were though. there's no real reason to care about the htc first either, since you can have it on any android - and every smartphone on the market has some sort of facebook integration(which they wouldn't have if he had gone mobiles only).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Who's on HTC First? No, no, no, that's a bad joke. Leave the "who's on first?" to Abbott and Costello!
It doesn't take a prophet to see what happens when there's no interest and no profit!
Profits First, HTC 2nd? No, wait...
Sales first, profits 2nd, HTC 3rd? No... wait!
1. Mediocre Concept first
2. Poor Execution second
3. HTC "First" really last! Puts M$ Zune to shame in lastness!
4. ???
5. No Profit!!! Do not pass go! Do not collect 200 Dollar$ !!!
It looks like decent hardware. I hate to see the losses to HTC because Facebook's platform isn't ready. How about this: sell the hardware with stock Android. Make it a nexus phone.
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I know all three of you were really excited, but now you'll just have to go back to your Microsoft phones..
Really now, offering us new opportunities, or Mark and HTC? I'd vote for the latter......
don't cry, just give it up and concentrate on your other friends.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Does he think of them as "dumb f*cks" the same way he thinks Facebook users are?
So, it's already been cancelled, and now it's not launching? How does that make sense?
Stories like this, about things the DON'T Matter, should be ignored. Seriously, letâ(TM)s just agree that Facebook is cooked and done, and move onâ¦
But of course, /. no longer uses the "Stuff That Matters" moniker... Much of the time itâ(TM)s not even all that âoegeekyâ.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
A Facebook operating system. KublaCant'd rather run his balls on Windows 95 than to use...such...an...abomination....
Rest assured, we remain committed to bringing our customers the latest mobile experiences, ...
Not necessarily the best mobile experiences, but certainly the latest.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
nothing of value was lost.
Good people go to bed earlier.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Facebook is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Facebook community when IDC confirmed that Facebook market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Facebook has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Facebook is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict Facebook's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Facebook faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Facebook because Facebook is dying. Things are looking very bad for Facebook. As many of us are already aware, Facebook continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Instagram is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Instagram developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Instagram is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Twitter leader Biz Markie states that there are 7000 users of Twitter. How many users of Facebook are there? Let's see. The number of Twitter versus Facebook posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Facebook users. SOCIAL MEDIA posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Facebook posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SOCIAL MEDIA. A recent article put Instagram at about 80 percent of the Facebook market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Instagram users. This is consistent with the number of Instagram Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Instagram went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Facebook has steadily declined in market share. Facebook is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Facebook is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Facebook continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Facebook is dead.
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rinse repeat
Hmm...
* Windows 8
* Windows Phone
* XBOX One
Yay!
Actually, UK canceled WANTING HTC First.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Unless this was some special partnership, then Facebook will have a contract with a clearly stated MOQ (Minimum Order Quantity).
If they cannot make that commitment to purchase from HTC the amount stated then HTC will charge them to get out of the contract. This will be broken down into costs for the handsets already produced and unsold, materials already bought and some additional fee for lost revenue on the rest.
In short, HTC will be okay (they'll even make a bit of profit, although not as much as if the phone had been a success) however it will be Facebook who will be left with one expensive bill.
(been there and, sadly, done that)
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Zucky Monster made a F on the final exam ! Teach knows best.
Ah ha so THAT was the last straw.
Now Facebook has to Re-Live and Re-Invent the fabled F grade for as long as Facebook is a registered company.