Why would Android delete Facebook Home?

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Why would Android delete Facebook Home?

Does Google want this? No, they do not. But Mountain View lets (encourages?) their OEM’s and carriers to mess with the pure Android experience so they have to let Facebook do it too if customers so desire. And why not? In the most recent versions of Jellybean, you can make Google Currents your lock screen. OEMs have long had access to the way your homescreen looks. Why shouldn’t other vendors have access to these functions?


The real question is: what happens in the unlikely event that this takes off and people find value in Facebook’s Home? You know Facebook is going to continue to try to push Google out of the way and people will use Google services less and less – which is the whole point of Android.

I imagine Google will come up with some other Home-type of function with a lot more Now and +GooglePlus integration than currently exists…. one that would delete the Facebook Home in the install process. This of course will be bundled with every Gmail, Maps, Yahoo, Plus and Talk update so that it is almost impossible not to install.

(http://9to5google.com)