Mark Zuckerberg Declines The Facebook Phone

Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg pointed out building an entire mobile doesn't make sense for the social networking service company.

Regardless of a study Wednesday that Facebook could introduce its own tool produced by HTC as early as mid-2013, Zuckerberg stated a Facebook phone is not presently in the cards. At least not one created totally by the Menlo Park, Calif., provider.

Immediately after being inquired which was more crucial-- having a whole smartphone experience, being an software or just being a system that feeds in to lots of software-- Zuckerberg pointed out that in the meantime, the company wants to focus on raising "the depth of the experience in addition to just increasing individuals."

Zuckerberg stated that at this time, Facebook is concentrated much more on combining itself into additional mobile handsets as much as feasible than on creating its own component.

"You'll view us do things such as support Apple in the iOS combination that they desired to do," the Facebook co-founder pointed out. "There are various points that you could build in additional operating system too that are not truly building out a whole cellphone, which I think really wouldn't make much sense for us to do."

Yet even though it seems the option of mobile phone production has been tossed out the window, some of Zuckerberg's wording raises the concern: Is Facebook constructing an OS?

"We desire to sustain a development ecosystem where other applications may develop on top of Facebook," Zuckerberg pointed out simply before the last quote.

And later on in his answer, Zuckerberg talked about why all this integration provides a great possibility for Facebook. Yet those exact same points are also causes a Facebook smartphone could possibly make sense for the business.

"There's a significant option for us right here," he pointed out. "The amount of time that people spend in the apps is higher; individuals come to the apps and use Facebook more when they have mobiles."

Irrespective, Zuckerberg wasn't bashful concerning exactly how crucial mobile is to Facebook, as well as it seems the business has large strategies.

"If you use the applications these days, they're fairly basic compared with just what I assume anyone may picture they would desire from a Facebook experience on a mobile phone," he said.

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