Facebook wants to get into your home.
In what smacks of slightly desperate "us-also-ism," Facebook this week launched its Portal and Portal Plus hardware devices. The big question for consumers, after years of Facebook missteps on privacy, is whether you should let the Portal inside your door. I'd suggest maybe not.
The devices come with 10- or 15-inch screens, and retail for $199 or $349. Expect a big ad blitz this holiday season. And given the devices' functions, form factor and price, you can be forgiven if the Portals seem a lot like Amazon's Echo Show.
With the Portal, Facebook is trying to stake out space, any space, in the Internet of Things, where Amazon has grabbed an early and significant lead. Every week, you can find announcements for new gadgets from many makers that are controlled by Amazon's voice-activated digital assistant Alexa. Not incidentally, that list includes Facebook's new Portals.
In what smacks of slightly desperate "us-also-ism," Facebook this week launched its Portal and Portal Plus hardware devices. The big question for consumers, after years of Facebook missteps on privacy, is whether you should let the Portal inside your door. I'd suggest maybe not.
The devices come with 10- or 15-inch screens, and retail for $199 or $349. Expect a big ad blitz this holiday season. And given the devices' functions, form factor and price, you can be forgiven if the Portals seem a lot like Amazon's Echo Show.
With the Portal, Facebook is trying to stake out space, any space, in the Internet of Things, where Amazon has grabbed an early and significant lead. Every week, you can find announcements for new gadgets from many makers that are controlled by Amazon's voice-activated digital assistant Alexa. Not incidentally, that list includes Facebook's new Portals.
- 10/9/2018
- by David Bloom
- Tubefilter.com
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