At the beginning of this month, we received an announcement from the company Facebook, in which they announced a new smart camera device called Portal. This should represent direct competition directed against the company Amazon and its Echo Show system. Ambition Facebookhowever, they seem to extend far beyond the presented hardware. The company is therefore planning to develop a device with which we will be able to conduct video calls on a large screen and share content through Facebook Watch. The code working designation for this device is Ripley and if it is with it Facebooku managed to come to the market in the foreseeable future, for companies like Amazon, Apple, Google or Roku would represent respectable competition, according to the statement.
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It would be a device oriented towards the realm of available set-top boxes, which, with the addition of a camera, would turn your TV into a huge "Facebook Portal". In any case, this step is probably just another shot into the void, which was in the submission Facebooku more than enough. He took care of a similar attempt Microsoft as part of the implementation of Skype on the Xbox console One through the Kinect camera, which did not turn out as expected at all. If you Facebook will really want to compete with the competition, it will have to vigorously expand support for the use of applications. So far we know that Portal will support them Facebook Watch and play music via appSpotify and Pandora.
Portal system produced by the company Facebook wants to compete directly Amazonu.
However, one important question arises here, which the members themselves have certainly asked themselves Facebookat. Who would like to have a so-called "eye" in their living room Facebooku" especially after all the cases that have happened with the company in recent months? It wouldn't be the first time Facebook decided to withdraw his project before we see the final processing and launch. The social networking giant is currently one of the most unreliable elements on the market, so a total failure scenario with this system is more than likely. We will see how the company deals with this step and what we will actually see as a result.
