Did Mark Zuckerberg Disconnect Facebook Phone Rumors Once And For All?
Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has attempted over and over to squash speculation about a Facebook phone, and he offered his strongest denial to date during the social network’s fourth-quarter earnings call Wednesday.
Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has attempted over and over to squash speculation about a Facebook phone, and he offered his strongest denial to date during the social network’s fourth-quarter earnings call Wednesday.
Responding to a question from Mark Mahaney of RBC Capital Markets for more details about mobile-specific products and features Facebook planned to introduce in 2013, Zuckerberg said:
In terms of new experiences, I think the big theme that we are going to push on mobile is that people keep on asking if we’re going to build a phone, and we are not going to build a phone, right, because it’s not the right strategy for us to build one integrated system where — so let’s say we sold 10 million units, that’d be 1 percent of users, who cares for us, right? The big thing for us is that we have 1 billion people using our products, and...
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