Facebook Smartphone: How should it be a success and resolve all of company’s problems? – Part 1

Facebook IPO show is over now and the results are less than satisfactory for the social network. The credit should go to Mark Zuckerberg what he envisioned in the past why he always opposed the notion of going public. The reasons are apparent as many experts around the globe commented that the Facebook IPO will be a failure.

However, water has passed under the bridge and the damage is done. What has to be done now is the matter at hand, how to cater to the problem. Zuckerberg had persistently suggested a Facebook smartphone but that idea never saw the light of day. Mostly because many experts within the company and outside negated the idea that Facebook should announce a smartphone.

The reasons for this attitude was the then-expected numbers that supported their premise that mobile computing is not going to be a strong contender against personal computing, a platform where Facebook spawned and progressed to become the most used website in the world.

However, recent data from several researches have suggested that mobile computing has become the strongest platform for connecting to social networks, in addition to other tech chores. Tablets and smartphone are frequently used in the West and due to the fact they are always with the users, they are also the most used devices in a day’s computing.

What Facebook’s mobile apps lack are advertisements, their major source of income and what investors think is not enough to satisfy them in the market. Advertisement is where Facebook’s bread and butter lies and mobile platform does not support this mode of income. Therefore, the social network is planning to launch their own smartphone with Facebook not as an app but the operating system and widgets, the whole shebang.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Jun 2 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.