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It Looks Like Facebook Is Also Building a Smart Speaker With Touch Screen (techcrunch.com)
From a report: Facebook may launch its own smart home gadget to get you messaging more friends and looking at more photos. DigiTimes reports from Taiwan that Facebook is building a 15-inch touch screen smart speaker. Citing sources from the "upstream supply chain", Chinese iPhone manufacturer Pegatron is building the device for a Q1 2018 launch, with a small pilot run having already been produced. It's said to have been designed by Facebook secretive new hardware lab Building 8, using an LG in-cell touch screen with magnesium-aluminum-alloy chassis. While no further details are known about the speaker's functionality, it could potentially extend Facebook's feed of photos and videos plus its dominant messaging platform into the bedroom, living room, or kitchen.
Smartphones go with us everywhere, after all.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Seems like a bad idea, if I want nude pics of myself posted to Facebook I'll do it myself.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Never mind The State, we have Facebook, and it makes The State look weak in comparison.
What's next, Zuckerberg? Facebook cameras in every room of people's houses? Facebook Bluetooth enabled buttplugs (because you seem to want Facebook up people's asses 24/7/365 so why not)?
Fuck Facebook
Fuck Zuckerberg
Fuck ALL 'social media'
Fuck devices that listen in on you in your home 24/7/365
Unless Zuckerberg can alter the HTML standard (or iOS and Android), that's still an easy enough workaround - the first thing I do with a new smartphone is jettison and/or disable all things Facebook. If I have to access it on the phone afterwards, I'll do it with the mobile browser ("Request Desktop site", continue as normal, even for messaging - which they already try to block mobile browsers from using.)
I don't want to keep battery-sucking apps pinging out annoyance every couple of minutes on my phone (the apps I use for work do that already), so what makes FB think I want a device in my house that does the same thing?
Then again, I'm probably not their target demographic...
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
yep, my BALLS. Suck em, nerds!!!!
Pretty soon that will be the only activity some people participate in, besides recycling memes.
Twinstiq, game news
If you want to see the future of Facebook in your home, watch "Demon Seed" about an AI that takes over the scientist's home and impregnates the housewife. You may come home one day to find Mark Zuckerburg's offspring waiting for you.
in a feeding frenzy, and we're the school of fish
It did everything I needed. Showed the time. Played an alarm. Displayed the weather. Let me have pictures, a TV schedule, streamed some video, browse the web in a pinch.
Now? Well, it still checks the time.
Facebook can't even just show me stuff I care about on their never-ending webpage. I'm constantly telling it to ignore various sources and people so that it can show me the few things that I actually care about. I have little faith that they can show me useful content on a single screen device.
People have been describing Facebook as a "technology company" for so long that they've started believing it themselves. Next we'll find Twitter are expecting to be taken seriously too.
AKA a tablet.
we'll all have a house full of smart speakers talking to each other behind our backs.
living in the forest and fucking wolves is still an option
Yo Dawg I heard you like Memes So I made a meme about making memes and how you like making memes
Like all great works of art... you should read the book first.
I'm sorry but that's too big for a stupid smart speaker.
#DeleteFacebook
It even makes voice calls. It's called a telephone.
We already have Google, Amazon, and Apple in this space. Why do we need another smart speaker? More exactly, why do we need a smart speaker in the first place?
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need nudes of anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 videos of teenagers masturbating, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
Should be bought.
Gee, like FB doesn't know enough about someone?
What the fuck that that even mean?
I'll put that right next to my Zune.
No need to change your status to 'crapping my guts out' when the gizmo can see you on the crapper.
Now you can have five speaker devices from five different companies in each room of your home. Line them up alphabetically if you like. Decorate them for your favorite holidays. Cuss 'em out if they misbehave, but don't expect them to be useful.
...omphaloskepsis often...