{"id":649485,"date":"2013-03-28T22:37:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T02:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=139813"},"modified":"2013-03-28T22:37:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T02:37:41","slug":"come-april-4-facebook-gets-a-new-home-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649485","title":{"rendered":"Come April 4, Facebook gets a &#8220;new home on Android&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Facebook-Android-Event-600x329.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Facebook Android Event\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-139823\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They say April showers bring May flowers. What will Facebook&#8217;s April 4 event bring? Late today the social network reportedly invited blogs and the news media to &#8220;come see our new home on Android&#8221;. I&#8217;m not on the social network&#8217;s guest list and can only report that based on those who got the invite, everything looks legit and tantalizing.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because no one can resist speculating or claiming that some unnamed source &#8212; sorry, your buddy in the next bathroom <i>shouldn&#8217;t<\/i> count &#8212; promises debut of the <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2012\/07\/26\/ahead-of-quarterly-reports-rumors-of-another-facebook-phone-rise\/\" >long-rumored<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2011\/01\/27\/facebook-reports-of-branded-phone-overblown\/\" >oft-denied<\/a>, ever-elusive and Google-gauging <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/03\/28\/facebook-android-phone\/\" >Facebook phone<\/a>. Running Android! My God, the irony, the rumor wide-eyed profess. Hey, dudes, what if the new home is a tablet? Like Amazon does with Kindle. Or there&#8217;s no phone at all?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but the force of meme-will is the social smartphone. It&#8217;s what everyone will <i>believe<\/i> by the time Easter Monday passes, unless there is some snarky April Fool&#8217;s joke meantime, like: &#8220;Today Facebook agreed to acquire Microsoft, and Bill Gates-wannabe Mark Zuckerberg promised to fire Steve Ballmer as his first official act&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>For now the rumor rabble runs wild at the mouth, citing the not-to-be-named-and-shamed guy cleaning the toilet as source Facebook will launch an Android phone made by HTC. Ha! Could this be the <i>real<\/i> reason for the HTC One&#8217;s delay. The HTC Facebook One? <\/p>\n<p>Tongues will wag, and it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess, and lots of people will. I&#8217;ll wrap with none but wonder about April Facebook showers &#8212; raining down on competitors &#8212; bringing a May device, if any. Rumormongers cried wolf so many times, I&#8217;m ever the skeptic. <\/p>\n<p><i>Thanks to Engadget, from which I lifted the invite above.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=HQksvpvcutQ:M-F-4399CJg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=HQksvpvcutQ:M-F-4399CJg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/HQksvpvcutQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say April showers bring May flowers. What will Facebook&#8217;s April 4 event bring? Late today the social network reportedly invited blogs and the news media to &#8220;come see our new home on Android&#8221;. I&#8217;m not on the social network&#8217;s guest list and can only report that based on those who got the invite, everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}