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Fire phone = Amazon

Facebook was called Home. And it had some nonsense gimmick with a Facebook-like Android skin for the OS.

But, yes it failed on its own merits when the consumer market took one look and laughed it off.

edit: I remembered wrong. Home was the name of their Android skin. HTC and Samsung launched a few phones running it by default, which all flopped.



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