Gacebook could have a smartphone on the market by next year, according to the New York Times. The paper quotes a Facebook employee who says CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scared of becoming just an app
Reports this weekend suggest that Facebook is, once again, keen on launching its own-branded smartphone, with the company said to be on a recruitment drive to bring in the top engineering talent.
The New York Times says the social network has hired six hardware and software specialists with iPhone experience with the aim to get a smartphone to market by next year.
The report points out that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is keenly involved with interviewing candidates for the project, codenamed Buffy, with sources claiming the billionaire Harvard drop-out is worried that Facebook could become "just another app."
“Mark is worried that if he doesn’t create a mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms,” a Facebook employee said of the top secret project.
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