Doomed IPO or not, Facebook doesn't seem too happy being an
app on everybody else's smartphone. No, sires, the social networking behemoth
wants to have its own smartphone, most market analysts believe.
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| There's no shortage of Facebook-friendly smartphones today; however, Facebook wants to launch its own smartphone, reports say. (Photo from HTC) |
Not that we should accept everything that analysts say at
face value. God knows we would all be millionaires by now if we were to receive
a peso for every analyst forecast that didn't turn out quite near what actually
occurred later.
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| Facebook wants something like this, its own smartphone. (Photo from ubergizmo.com) |
But putting our aspirations to be millionaire aside for a
while, we might see some semblance of future reality in what these rumors, I
mean analysis and forecasts, say.
Facebook has been quite vocal about its lack of mobile
muscle, about how mobile Internet could be detrimental to its advertising-based
revenue model. Also, this is not the first time Facebook and smartphone have
been used in one sentence by media and market commentators.
Some observers claim to know better than Facebook's top
honchos and have said in no ambivalent way that making its own smartphone would
be like committing suicide for the social networking site. Of course, an equal
number of analysts say it would be a good idea, almost as great as eradicating
world hunger.
Either way, it would be something exciting to see. Don't you agree?
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