Something like this -> https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-plans-smart...
Facebook plans a smartwatch with deep ties to Facebook to compete with the iPhone. Talk about a hard nope for me.
Facebook plans a smartwatch with deep ties to Facebook to compete with the iPhone. Talk about a hard nope for me.
I just assume it's a direct feed of all your bodily activity direct to Zuck Central. Supported by real time advertising direct to your brain.
Without having an OS to back it up like the Apple Watch has iOS and the Android Wear has Android, it’ll just be a worse smartwatch.
What would their killer app be?
Why? Facebook, of course.
I don't think they will.
Apple dominates the smartwatch category because they are the only ones willing to invest in CPUs and components to make them really work well. Well that plus iPhone integration.
> What would their killer app be?
My theory would be perhaps the "Killer" feature would be communications. If they could come up with a killer cellular watch that just goes around the smartphone entirely, they might make something appealing.
But Facebook has shown zero capability to actually come up with good ideas on their own so I doubt this will go far. If Samsung with all their hardware chops can't really come up with a decent Apple Watch competitor, is Facebook with no hardware experience going to come in and hit a home run? Or even a single?
Seems unlikely
Why would they have to?
With Facebook money I could write a new OS, put it in a smartwatch, and give them away free.
Plus start a new app _store_ to go with it.
>What would their killer app be?
Anything that was free.
Maybe I shouldn't be giving them any ideas . . .
See also: Amazon
Supposedly the Portal is actually nice hardware wise, but the Facebook association was just toxic for them.