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bugelrex
2011-07-23, 17:41
The N9 is probably as close to a "facebook phone" as you're going to get:

- dedicated screen for social network
- deep integrated with chat, contacts, skype
- one day support plugin facebook apps??

Clueless consumers would eat it all up, most of this demographic seem to only care about checking/posting facebook on their "smartphones"

Sure;y they'll sell more this way than trying to market it to linux geeks?
gerbick
2011-07-23, 17:46
Because Facebook will update their API's, Nokia will be slow (again) to update their apps that talk to Facebook.

Happened with Yahoo, MSN, looking like it'll happen with Skype, Twitter very soon.
Dave999
2011-07-23, 17:49
Because Facebook is useless and Nokia wants poeple to meet face to face.
mirciox
2011-07-23, 18:00
Omg, if I won't have FB on my N9, I'll throw away the device and die in a couple of days :( http://th1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff452/Khrono2007/th_new_troll_face.gif
mikecomputing
2011-07-23, 22:11
Because Facebook will update their API's, Nokia will be slow (again) to update their apps that talk to Facebook.

Happened with Yahoo, MSN, looking like it'll happen with Skype, Twitter very soon.

LOL thing is they are now in bed with Microsoft. Microsoft likes facebook and soon Skype is integrated on fb.

So my guess is symbian/harmattan will have good support for Faceshit and Skype and not so good for google+/GTalk in the longer run..

Thats one of the reason I push my friends from fb and to Google+ instead :D
fahadj2003
2011-07-23, 22:12
Because Facebook is useless and Nokia wants poeple to meet face to face.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/And-It-All-Started-With-A-Friend-Request/114174498635753 <-- i can bet this is how you get laid every night

btw, phones aren't face to face :P
jus sayin :P
mikecomputing
2011-07-23, 22:16
Because Facebook is useless and Nokia wants poeple to meet face to face.

yes without theyr phones ;)
kanishou
2011-07-25, 11:19
Who says it's going to be marketed to Linux geeks? oO Obviously not.

Social networking is one thing, but it would be silly to reduce the N9 to this (or any other single feature really). It has also become the "hip" thing to offer on a phone, so it's hardly a way to stand out. Don't they have phones with dedicated Facebook buttons even?!
kojacker
2011-07-25, 12:43
The N9 is probably as close to a "facebook phone" as you're going to get:

- dedicated screen for social network
- deep integrated with chat, contacts, skype
- one day support plugin facebook apps??


I'm not really into Facebook so it wouldn't appeal to me, but I can understand the point you're making by suggesting the N9 should be marketed at a specific group. However there is already a range of Android phones, such as the HTC Salsa and Chacha, marketed for those Facebook fanatics. Some even have their own dedicated Facebook key on the handset face.

e.g.
http://gadgetfeel.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/htc_cha_cha_htc_salsa_specifications_thumb.jpg

I think we can all agree that the N9 deserves it's own marketing push, but riding the Facebook bandwagon wouldn't be it imo.
BigBadGuber!
2011-07-25, 12:53
Just call N9 the Jesus phone. All the right wing fanatics will buy it!
vi_
2011-07-25, 12:58
Why isn't N9 marketed?

There ya go, fixd.
tkatchev
2011-07-25, 13:20
Because the N9 is not marketed at all.

In fact, it's being ant-marketed: that is, Elop is doing everything possible and impossible to make sure the N9 fails.

I'm sure Elop wouldn't be above shipping a turd in every N9 package alongside the phone if only that would help him discourage people from buying the N9. (Thankfully I don't think decisions like these are in his power.)
gerbick
2011-07-25, 13:42
LOL thing is they are now in bed with Microsoft. Microsoft likes facebook and soon Skype is integrated on fb.

So my guess is symbian/harmattan will have good support for Faceshit and Skype and not so good for google+/GTalk in the longer run..

Thats one of the reason I push my friends from fb and to Google+ instead :D

That's applicable only for WP7, not Maemo.
cfh11
2011-07-25, 13:53
hey now, go easy on nokia. they are just learning this whole "marketing" thing.
IcyMoustache
2011-07-25, 14:17
Because Facebook is useless and Nokia wants poeple to meet face to face.

yeah right,,, just like they did in stone age, right!
mrwormp
2011-07-25, 14:26
Why would I want a phone that is marketed for facebook.
bugelrex
2011-07-25, 15:08
Why would I want a phone that is marketed for facebook.

Because if it doesn't sell well, the phone and OS will not get much support. Huge sales = average joe.

Why else would "average joe" consumer pick N9 over iphone,Android,Blackberry?. The mass consumers (500M facebook users) care deeply about facebook (dont ask me why).

just having a "FB" button that launches an FB app is not good enough. N9 appears to have deep intgration and easily accessible. This is the only way to have joe consumer ignore 1M apps in an appstore...