Facebook's First Home Update Coming Thursday
Many users have been unhappy with Facebook Home, the company's mobile platform on Android. Facebook will release a small update Thursday to Home, but it will mainly be bug fixes and minor improvements. Two lead engineers told a select group of reporters Thursday that the first update to Home will be released Thursday afternoon, with greater updates available within the next two months.
Many users have been unhappy with Facebook Home, the company’s mobile platform on Android. Facebook will release a small update Thursday to Home, but it will mainly be bug fixes and minor improvements. Two lead engineers told a select group of reporters Thursday that the first update to Home will be released Thursday afternoon, with greater updates available within the next two months.
Facebook Thursday directed a whiteboard session discussing Home. While greater features — such as making it easier to initiate a conversation from Chat Heads — won’t be available in this update, Facebook said the platform should improve over the course of the next few months.
Facebook Director of Product Adam Mosseri told reporters that of the 15,000-plus reviews of Facebook Home on the Google Play store, he’s read at least 2,000 of them (and counting).
Facebook Home was announced in April as a completely integrated layer above the Android operating...
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