Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

<i>By moving to its own OS, Facebook could have more freedom to bake social interaction — and hopefully privacy — deeper into its devices.</i><p>Privacy? I expect some amazing detailed &amp; intrusive data gathering.

All the more reason to consider the HTC Vive or Steam Index if interested in being an early adapter of VR where their achievements can be more collaborative.<p>Side note regarding Portal and other &quot;social hardware&quot;, I can&#x27;t imagine there being user-friendly privacy toggles when facebook owns the complete stack..

I doubt this will get much in the way of mainstream penetration. You&#x27;re never going to see any competitive phone installations of this. It&#x27;ll probably mostly be for things like portal. I doubt they&#x27;d be successful in doing a chromebook competitor either given how horribly tarnished their name is, but it does at least seem more realistic than a phone.

Android privacy is bad enough as it is, I can&#x27;t imagine how horrible a facebook operating system would be.

Wasn&#x27;t there one like this already (though used android) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HTC_First" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HTC_First</a>

It’s an obvious vertical integration play to make an operating system for the hardware you manufacturer.<p>I’d like to see an AR&#x2F;VR first OS&#x2F;UI.

Finally, a rival for Fuchsia.

Good luck with that, Mark.

For a company of the size of FB and its ambitions, this seems kind of late. I would have thought they already had something like this.

Mark Lucovsky is pretty legendary! Every Windows exe starts with the two bytes ML!<p>EDIT: As others pointed out its actually another Mark, MZ. Lucovsky was the Mark, who Steve Ballmer was throwing chairs around when he said to leave for Google. Still legendary. :)

Makes sense. It&#x27;ll be a *nix variant probably.. we might get a nice new UI layer out of it.

Eye OS, because they will always be watching you?