By the power of Facebook, Home has the power !!!

"Today, our phones are designed around apps, not people. We want to flip that around" - Mark (the power) Zuckerberg - April 4th 2013

Of course the first thing you can say is, the way they are going to flip it down Facebook way is by re-inventing their app....eh......I mean change it around people but I have to say I am intrigued

So what has it got to do with He-Man? Well nothing much but it has got a lot to do with the power sword......in the same sense that it doesn't......Confusing as always I know..... You see young Prince Adam (above) had an alter ego aka He-Man, kind of like what Zuck has in Facebook but I am still not getting to the point.....so. When Prince Adam wanted to transform into He-Man he grasped his trusty power sword and shouted those famous words..........

"By the power of Grayskull, I....have...the....POWER !!!!"

But the thing was, the sword never held the power, the power came from Grayskull, the sword was just the device to harness it. The Sorceress in Grayskull granted Adam the transformative powers and also communicated with him telepathically, in other word she took one thing, turned it into another and was able to communicate on a whole new way

Facebook Home is the new social and simple (their words) way to harness the power of your phone. In fact the phone is irrelevant, it is a new way to harness how you use your phone. You are and always will be the device and Facebook is your operating system.....even if they say they are not building that. This is Facebooks way of selling billions of phones without selling the phones. It gives them a massive foothold in the phone market initially on android but with the potential to sync one and all.

Now as I said, I am intrigued, I do use Facebook a lot and probably 90% (guesstimate) of the time on my mobile. I prefer to call it mobile rather than phone as 80% (another guesstimate) of what I use it for has nothing to do with the word phone in the traditional sense. Mark Zuckerberg highlighted the fact that home makes it easier to communicate via text, tugging on the acquisition strings of late mixing instagram and messenger etc to create a new look and feel to the social experience.

Now. I know that me liking it presents this as a little one sided and especially given my track record for thoughts on the iPhone........oh that reminds me I haven't mentioned IOS but in the same sense I haven't mentioned Twitter and Google+ etc so just to balance things up. Skeletor (shown above with new HTC First box) wanted the power that Prince Adam had from Grayskull, his plans were quite sketchy but roughly said 1) Kill He-Man, 2) Not get killed by He-Man...."you can't kill me He-Man" 3) Steal Grayskull, rule Eternia 4) Open Hip coffee shop.

Okay maybe not number 4.......yet.... but Facebook Home will have it's critics, the launch made no mention of killing anyone, but squeezing other social mediums is always a possibility. Android is open, soooooo open was the cry, we want everyone to be flexible, we are open too but in reality the Social is so disconnected it may be a while before everybody gets together at the party.

So if the others aren't careful they may miss out and Facebook home will be a real big win for Zuck and Android and if they are not really careful we could always grab an Americano at Facebucks.

That Learning Dude @LearningXDude