Facebook’s latest offering in the mobile space, the Facebook Home for Android devices, has now reached a milestone in just a few days after release.
The new deeply integrated launcher kind of app for the Android devices, has passed over 500,000 installs on Android. The data comes from the much publicly available information on the Google Play Store, and interestingly, the average user rating still falls below half of the total rating.
Facebook Home launched to the public on April 12th, and the new app was demoed during a special event at the Facebook HQ. With over 500,000 downloads now, the Home can be considered a hit, but the actual usage stats may vary. People who downloaded Facebook Home will not necessarily be using it for what it offers.
While a lot of users thought Facebook Home would be the only way to use Chat heads, Facebook updated its Messenger for Android with Chat heads feature. The App is still not available in all the countries across the globe.
Coming to the ratings, a majority of the users (Over 5000) have given it a very poor rating, and it seems to grow day by day. It’s now too early to consider it a hit. Since, the number of downloads and number of active installs are a completely different use cases.