Please address the answer in terms of Microsoft, not you or I or even FaceBook.
WHY IS MICROSOFT ACCOUNTABLE for your FaceBook???
...what Microsoft knows, and you may not realize, is that, even in carrier stores, one of the first apps people load up and try, before they take a device home, is Facebook...
That's why Microsoft created their own app. Facebook didn't provide one, and for Microsoft, it was untenable that they didn't have a native app.
It would be like shipping a phone without email, or a native music player on board.
I'm quite certain some people try out a FaceBook App first thing. Show me the stat that says how many... What drives your belief that FB is so prevalent that having the App decides purchase and OS use? You yourself are expressing how vitally urgent FB is to you... Why did the state of FB on Windows Phone not deter you from purchasing the phone you have and using this OS? If it was so darn "make or break" we wouldn't be having this conversation... You would follow FaceBook to where it provided you with official support.
No. It is not the same as email or native music player to the majority of users.
Again, you are confusing "I want" with "everyone must have." Show me the stat that demonstrated FaceBook App use comes close to the numbers for email clients or music players.
You are arguing from your own desire, not any demonstrable facts.
It's not about me. It's about Microsoft and where they put their programming resources, what those programmers spend their time on.
Please explain why everybody just has to have FaceBook and it MUST be baked into the OS and made a priority for updates and maintenance...
Please explain how it is Microsoft's responsibility to provide an App gateway to a 3rd party service...
Please explain why the burden falls on Microsoft and NOT FaceBook... That's the one that really puzzles me... How FaceBook gets nothing but Love when they have shunned your mobile OS and treated you as if you were not a part of the FaceBook community. If you were as important to FaceBook as it is to you, would they not have authored an App for Windows Phone?
Please explain why the burden is on Microsoft to create and maintain a FaceBook App when even 3rd party developers are not doing so in large number...
Please explain why, if FaceBook is so "essential" the App store is not flooded with 3rd party Apps to fill the void...
If the answer is; "Because I want it," we've already seen that reason expounded upon quite vociferously.
Please address the answer in terms of Microsoft, not you or I or even FaceBook.
WHY IS MICROSOFT ACCOUNTABLE for your FaceBook???
It would be like shipping a phone without email, or a native music player on board.
This one's easy. Allow me:
Answer: Forget about a premiere FB experience---without a *good* Facebook experience on Windows phones, even *fewer* customers will buy their devices. Sure, FB is a third party company, and it's really on them to provide an app, but what Microsoft knows, and you may not realize, is that, even in carrier stores, one of the first apps people load up and try, before they take a device home, is Facebook.
And if it sucks in the store, NO SALE.
That's why Microsoft created their own app. Facebook didn't provide one, and for Microsoft, it was untenable that they didn't have a native app.
It would be like shipping a phone without email, or a native music player on board.
Good thing I deleted my facebook account and never regretted it because this sounds very annoying...
Likewise, been facebook free for 3 weeks, haven't missed it one day.
Apps, apps, apps are the reason why windows phone is failing
@tgp...
You seriously think having no FaceBook App would be worse than not having email? Employers better not require FaceBook for official communications regarding work. That's just ridiculous.
Look, I understand FB or Twitter or Instagram or whatever have their fan bases. Why those fans don't understand not everyone viewing that service as "indispensable" is baffling to me. Great, you like it, you use it; more power to you. But mandatory?
In what way is it indispensable? Please explain it to me. I quite seriously and literally do not understand. How is the rest of your comm device's function sacrificed without FaceBook? What does FaceBook DO that keeps your business/work/professional or personal life moving forward when nothing else can? Is there a person so important to you that you simply must communicate business or personal information with that is not reachable via voice call, VOIP, IM, SMS, etc., etc., ad nauseam?
FaceBook users are very fanatic. I get that. I've had them in my life, pressuring me to "get on FaceBook." I tried... I don't like it. It's invasive, obnoxious and condescending. It's also sneaky and manipulative if you read the recent reports in the media. I can't see anything "essential" about it from inside or outside...
What do you GET out of FaceBook that you simply can not get any other way? Break it down for me like I'm stupid...