Facebook ’s spokespeople may’vealready deniedthey’reworking on a Facebook phone , but the rumour keep on rolling — particularly about the two employee at the heart of the story ( ex - Firefox manJoe Hewitt , and passe - Chrome OS chappyMatthew Papakipos ) .
https://gizmodo.com/update-facebook-denies-creating-a-facebook-phone-5642159
Silicon Alley Insider mine Joe Hewitt ’s Twitter invoice yesterday , wherethey discoveredsomeone who really does n’t like Android or the iPhone . A sample distribution tweet from his feed is “ Android creature are horrendous , OS is hideous , but the absence of big brother telling me what to do dedicate it a svelte boundary . ”
This total from the man whoup until last yearwas working on Facebook ’s entanglement and native apps for iPhone , before he pass on the project over to another engineer , citing “ Apple ’s policies . ” He save that he was “ philosophically opposed to the existence of their review process , ” and “ very interested that they are prepare a horrible common law for other software platforms . ”
Yesterday it was also discovered thatHewitt yankedhispersonal blog down , perhaps after the unwelcome attention throw his direction .
While Hewitt may have some issues with Android , hypothesis was point towards the type O being used for Facebook ’s phone , mostly helped along because of Facebook’srecent hireofGoogle Android‘s senior product manager Erick Tseng .
https://gizmodo.com/chief-android-erick-tseng-abandons-google-for-facebook-5537479
Whatever Facebook is plan , I do n’t think thattheir denialhas much to do with it . [ Business Insider ]
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