TechCrunch has interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the possibility of a Facebook phone.
The site had earlier reported that Facebook may be secretly working on a phone to counter any long term threats from Android or iOS to its social network. This report was corroborated by other sources but denied by Facebook itself.
Mark Zuckerberg
Before we get into this, I want to apologize for the miscommunication. I think our folks were trying to reach out to you and weren’t able to reach you before we issued our statement.
At the end of the day, when people say "building a phone" they actually can mean very different things. Internally, the way we talk about our strategy, it’s like the opposite of that. Our whole strategy is not to build any specific device or integration or anything like that. Because we’re not trying to compete with Apple or the Droid or any other hardware manufacturer for that matter.
Our strategy is very horizontal. We’re trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically we’re trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social whether it’s on the web, or mobile, or other devices. So inherently our whole approach has to be a breadth-first approach rather than a depth-first one. And we work on all of these different things at the same time, so I’m sure whatever leak you got was probably accurate for whatever the person said. But it was probably just one part of what we are doing. Anyhow. I just wanted to give that context.
You can read the entire interview which contains much more information at the link below...
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The site had earlier reported that Facebook may be secretly working on a phone to counter any long term threats from Android or iOS to its social network. This report was corroborated by other sources but denied by Facebook itself.
Mark Zuckerberg
Before we get into this, I want to apologize for the miscommunication. I think our folks were trying to reach out to you and weren’t able to reach you before we issued our statement.
At the end of the day, when people say "building a phone" they actually can mean very different things. Internally, the way we talk about our strategy, it’s like the opposite of that. Our whole strategy is not to build any specific device or integration or anything like that. Because we’re not trying to compete with Apple or the Droid or any other hardware manufacturer for that matter.
Our strategy is very horizontal. We’re trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically we’re trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social whether it’s on the web, or mobile, or other devices. So inherently our whole approach has to be a breadth-first approach rather than a depth-first one. And we work on all of these different things at the same time, so I’m sure whatever leak you got was probably accurate for whatever the person said. But it was probably just one part of what we are doing. Anyhow. I just wanted to give that context.
You can read the entire interview which contains much more information at the link below...
Read More