Whether you love
or loathe Facebook Home for Android, its impact on the social networking scene
cannot be denied. It’s been a hot topic ever since the Menlo Park company sent
out invitations to the ‘new home on Android’ event, and today, it appears as
though the launcher has been tweaked to bring official support for the HTC One.
Hitherto, anybody trying to install Facebook Home on the HTC One or Samsung
Galaxy S4 would have been met with a "not supported" message, but
while the latter appears still to be prompting users with the same pop-up, the
HTC One seems to be installing without incident.
Of course, Galaxy S4 users can still
install Facebook Home unofficially, and I strongly doubt the message has
stopped many owners of the latest Samsung handset from trying out Home anyway.
It doesn’t
appear as though Facebook has released an official update to the Home
app, nor has it made any kind of announcement on any changes. But those in
ownership of the HTC One should now be able to download and run Facebook Home
with minimal fuss.
The general response to Home has been
rather negative, with Droidsters giving it a two-star rating on average over at
Google Play. But it’s important to remember that this is a brand new launcher,
and lest we forget how long it took for the standard Facebook app for Android
to be brought up to scratch.
One of the most
significant ingredients of Facebook’s big Android push has been Chat Heads, and
with that particular having been pushed out to the vast majority of Android
handsets via the Facebook messenger app, its
reception has been markedly better than that of Facebook Home.
Due to the closed source nature of
iOS, Facebook has been limited as to how much it can offer iPhone, iPad and
iPod touch users, but with the jailbreak scene as dogmatic as usual in its
quest to enhance functionality, it likely won’t be too long before iDevice
owners can enjoy a comparative experience.
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