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> Facebook fail (killed internally)

Interesting. What was the Facebook mobile OS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Home

http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-first/

I remember Facebook home, but it was more an attempt to colonise Android (like Microsoft is trying now) than a Blackberry, Jolla, Tizen etc offering.

Same as Amazon's phones, though. It's Android without admitting it's Android, and they're selling it as a completely different phone.

Similar to how Ubuntu is Linux, but their homepage doesn't mention the word "Linux" at all and they tried their damnedest to make it incompatible with the broader Linux community for a long time.

I guess the Facebook Home app was the tip of the iceberg that we saw?

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