Facebook Phone Flop: Didn’t See That Coming!
The HTC ChaCha flopped, the phone with the Facebook button from 2011. The Kin flopped, a social-centric device. Facebook Home, the hated Android skin, in terms of most people intensely disliking it, flopped spectacularly. Phones with specs that would only turn heads in previous years tend not to do so well either. One might see an axiom here and act accordingly. Instead, AT&T, HTC and Facebook launched the HTC First.
I have the benefit of hindsight, however Todd Haselton did not when he called the flop before details of the phone were available. His conclusions were that this phone, which would surely have underwhelming specs (it did), would flop (it did), as will any subsequent attempt to make some sort of Facebook phone. Given that this had to have been obvious to the suits as the probable outcome, I wonder why they continue to bother.
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Doug Simmons
Biographical info.. hmm. I have a history of not being able to strike the balance between what is "safe" to put into these forms and what is, in my mind at least, funny. Can't do it.
I dunno. I mean it’s not my cup-o-tea… and wouldn’t be evern if I was into little green robot phones.
But I’m not sure I’m believing this.
You may be right, at least in terms of it not being discontinued, AT&T made a statement to BGR: “As mentioned previously, we do pricing promotions all the time and have made no decisions on future plans.”
Didn’t they (HTC, Facebook and AT&T) learn anything from Kin? It seems so.
I don’t know about android devices I am a windows person and I have been using it before iOS and android and still using it.
My Facebook is integrated at OS level and very nicely as you expect it from Microsoft, and I do not need the whole screen as android to show my Facebook update as its shown on my live tile.
So the bottom line for me I don’t need and I don’t care about Facebook phone as I have WP and it works great.