[theshrike79]

This is something companies would pay huge amounts of money for.

Any idea why Facebook never marketed these?

[pbalau]

> This is something companies would pay huge amounts of money for.

> Any idea why Facebook never marketed these?

This was designed to fit with internal Facebook frameworks and network capabilities. The device itself does not do much, in most cases just starts a browser and points it to an internal webapp. The device is just the presentation layer of a great deal of backend work that can't be easily extracted as a product.

[theshrike79]

Still, I'd take that over some shitty "slap a $50 android tablet on a wall and point it at our weird http site" -solution.

[SiempreViernes]

Presumably it was envisioned as an internal project, so nobody though about trying to sell it: pure inertia.

[CharmingOpp]

Maybe some version of the innovator’s dilemma? The product would have to be insanely successful for it to move the needle at such a large corporation.