Facebook's phone as obvious as nose on your face

He couldn't be more dead wrong about the mom-usability factor of the iPhone.

I know this because my mom bought one a couple years ago and was able to set up her email and start emailing me photos from the camera before I even knew she had it. This is someone who can't set up her desktop email client without calling me for help.

I'd be very interested in just how much social plays into the mobile experience. For example, although Facebook is one of my most frequented apps, I also to check news, play casual games, view website statistics, manage email, listen to music, check my finances, track my weight, calculate tips, read ebooks, watch Youtube and Netflix, and manage to-dos.

Is it entirely certain that designing the operating system among sharing photos and posting status message updates will be optimal across all mobile functions? Not sure that it's the case.

His links from "everyone" and "knew" are both from today... so how would everyone know this already?

That said, if they can penetrate the high school crowd, this might be a success. I don't think his mom is really the target market, but I could be wrong.

The mobile versions of FB etc. won't cut it if the next 5-10 years are going to be all about mobile. And thus the need for a true mobile-only social app or "social OS" pending already existing vertical data.

I bet not many saw that coming though. Is this really Dave Winer, the guy behind RSS?? What do you think their selling point would be? "The socially connected phone" And why would people want that??