Does Facebook hire original iPhone developers to promote their own smartphone development

ByEmilsjoblom

Google Completed Acquisition of Motorola MobilityYou can now create your own smartphone, but Facebook, another giant in the net service world, is also promoting the development of its own smartphone. It is said that this is the third plan for smartphone production by Facebook, and there is also a talk about whether to make a Facebook browser.

Facebook Might Have a Smartphone in Its Future - NYTimes.com


According to the technicians adopted by Facebook's new business plan, Facebook is planning to launch its own smartphone by next year. According to an anonymous technician, Facebook has hired more than six hardware technicians and software engineers who were already involved in the development of iPhone and iPad at Apple, challenging Facebook to become the third smartphone It is said that it starts.

The first challenge is 2010. TechCrunch says "Facebook is secretly making a phoneIn this case, it seems that it was planned to enter Android customized, but in the end this plan was torn down.

The second challenge is 2011, "Facebook is about to make an Android smartphone called "Buffy"What AllThingsD reported. It plans to make smartphone in collaboration with HTC, and now it is further extending the project.

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The third challenge this time is that in parallel with Buffy, they are trying to create new smartphones by gathering technicians who have already made smartphones. Furthermore, it is unknown whether it is Android which the OS customized like Buffy.

An engineer who used to work on iPhone design at Apple once said that when he met Mark Zuckerberg, he was asked questions about the inside of the smartphone. "Mr. Zuckerberg has asked about complicated details such as what chips are used," the engineer said that Zuckerberg was not talking about intellectual curiosity of play I will. Another former Apple hardware engineer also told that Facebook is investigating hardware.

Facebook did not answer to the question whether there is a plan to make a smartphone. However, last year we told AllThingsD, "We are moving across the mobile industry, as an operator, as a hardware manufacturer, as an OS provider, as an application developer." In the past, PC and consumer electronics makers challenged several mobile phones, but both Hewlett-Packard and Dell were defeated. Nick Bilton who wrote the article has truncated that Sony did not even make a smart phone.

But now the motivation for Facebook to move into the mobile field is obvious. It is because there is a fear that it is necessary to find a new financial source and it can not be put in the mobile field which is a promising growth stock. A technician said, "Mark is concerned that if Facebook can not make a mobile phone in the near future Facebook will turn it into an application on the mobile platform." While Twitter is fully integrated on the iPhone and anyone can freely send messages and pictures, Facebook is not integrated with iOS as it was ridiculous with Apple.

If Facebook fails to make a smartphone with its own team, you may be acquiring an existing smartphone maker. For example, known by BlackberryResearch in Motion (RIM)The valuation is less than $ 6 billion (about 480 billion yen). The HTC which is confused by Google's acquisition of Motorola is $ 11.8 billion (about 930 billion yen). On the other hand, Facebook has raised $ 16 billion (about 1.72 trillion yen) by IPO (initial public offering) of the other day.

By the way, based on this $ 16 billion, there is a talk that Facebook will buy Opera and convert it to Facebook browser.

Is Facebook about to buy Opera to create own Facebook browser? - Pocket-lint


Opera is an excellent browser that shows high growth for mobile in the past two years, and if Facebook acquires Opera Software which is its developer, it will not have to create a browser from 1. If Facebook is aiming at the penetration of mobile, there is no mystery in acquiring the browser. By the way, Opera already has 200 million users across the platform and can also incorporate it.