Facebook Denies It's Working on a Phone
PrintFacebook was quick to deny rumors that it's working on a mobile phone. After catching wind of a TechCrunch story on late Saturday night / early Sunday morning that the social networking site is "building the software for the phone and working with a third party to actually build the hardware," a Facebook PR jumped in to kill the speculation.
Straight and to the point, the PR dude said the report "is not accurate," adding "Facebook is not building a phone." End of story, right?
Perhaps so, but TechCrunch isn't convinced, who points out that Google also denied it wasn't working on a Google Phone prior to the Nexus One launch. And technically, if Facebook is pinging a third-party developer to construct the device, then it wouldn't be lying for the social networking giant to say that it's "not building a phone", but that's splitting hairs.
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bart3385
September 20, 2010 at 7:23am
Big companies like doing that. Play of words. Or sometimes, just reverse their previous statements. No harm comes to them doing that. They usually just wanna make sure if a move is the right move, before going all the way with admitting it.
Splitting hairs? Not far off.
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