Facebook (
FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage during a press conference on Thursday and unveiled the next stage in
Facebook’s mobile evolution:
Home. Zuckerberg confirmed — for what seems like the billionth time — that
Facebook smartly has no plans to build its own smartphone or its own operating system. Those strategies are too limiting. Instead, Facebook will take advantage of
Android’s open nature and offer a software suite that takes over the Android lock screen and home screen, replacing them with various content pulled from users’ Facebook feeds. While many believe Home could represent the future of social networking on mobile phones, others think Facebook’s new Android software is too invasive — and maybe even a bit scary.
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