1. Can Facebook phone pose a challenge to Google?
The idea of Facebook phone revolves around the social network. Will it
be favored over an app driven environment? Read more!
One of the major reason for which android was created it’s due to the
fact that Google was quick to sense the potential in the Smartphone
and developed its own OS against Apple. With the iPhone, Apple tried
to get even closer to its customers. It was not only the device but a
great way to access quality content and software. In the same way
Google strengthened its presence in the mobile with android. But with
the few FB skin made entirely over android, isn’t it allowing Facebook
to take advantage of a fully baked platform to literally understand
usage patterns and other details?
The hunger for data
1 http://www.openxcell.com/

2. It is really important to be able to have in-depth information about
users to specifically build applications. The Facebook phone is built
around an idea of people and not apps. With a FB skin over android, FB
will be easily able to track your location, your preferences and phone
numbers to target its ads in the mobile. Mobile app development
companies that build apps might have a chance to integrate their apps
to the FB skin but that won’t be too exciting. The freedom of Facebook
accessing all the data can pose a challenge for Google. Google which is
already suffering with low involvement in G+ might create an FB that
might challenge Google with its own OS in the future.
On the other hand many mobile app development companies like
Openxcell, feel that the idea of a phone build entirely around Facebook
is not really a driving factor. People love a broad configuration in their
phones which is stuffed with apps and none is provided by FB at time
moment.
2 http://www.openxcell.com/