Facebook Home was released only a short time ago and it hasn’t received much appreciation from users. While yes it was created for a niche market, that hasn’t stopped most people who’ve tried it from giving it a one to two star rating in the Play Store. In fact as I type this it sits at an average rating of 2.2 out of five. While it may not be a hit with the public it sure made an impression on Matias Duarte. If you’ve been living under a rock, he’s a key part of the Android design team and has been instrumental in creating the Android we see today. He praised Facebook’s software engineers by saying:
“The new Facebook Home shows an incredible amount of polish and attention to design detail, and that didn’t come from a hardware manufacturer.”
Of course that didn’t stop him from also plugging the Google design experience as well. He continued:
“With the Home experience, they did a nice job expressing the Facebook experience, but so much of the Google design experience with Ice Cream Sandwich was in there as well.”
He went on to say that he wasn’t bothered by Facebook Home replacing a lot of the vanilla Android experience and praised Android’s openness for having the ability to customize the software the way manufacturers deem necessary. Google’s great at praising quality when they see it even, if it’s from one of their competitors. While many people don’t seem impressed with Facebook’s first go at a launcher, Matias Duarte was. That may not mean much to most but it sure does say a lot about the software from a visual standpoint.
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