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Why does it need its own facebook mobile phone? they don t need a phone. they already have plenty of apps that run on phones. by controlling their own ecosystem on the phone not only will you be able to run facebook but facebook can have its own apps. reporter: its own phone can also help facebook become a major mobile advertising platform. facebook generates its income from ads online. critics say it s behind in making mobile a moneymaker. google was facing the same issue. that led to the creation of the android operating system. google even developed its own phone. it was built by htc, a taiwan company with factories in china. however, making a phone isn t as easy as it sounds. it s hard to do a phone. first, the technical issues and second of all, the ecosystem of the carriers. and the carriers are difficult companies to do business with. steve jobs called them orifices referring to something that you had to get through. reporter: apple succeeded with its iphone and google j ....
They already have plenty of apps that run on phones. by controlling their own ecosystem on the phone not only will you be able to run facebook but facebook can have its own apps. reporter: its own phone can also help facebook become a major mobile advertising platform. facebook generates its income from ads online. critics say it s behind in making mobile a moneymaker. google was facing the same issue. that led to the creation of the android operating system. google even developed its own phone. it was built by htc, a taiwan company with factories in china. however, making a phone isn t as easy as it sounds. it s hard to do a phone. first, the technical issues and second of all, the ecosystem of the carriers. and the carriers are difficult companies to do business with. steve jobs called them orifices referring to something that you had to get through. reporter: apple succeeded with its iphone and google just completed a $14 billion deal to acquire motorola mobility. that could l ....
Himself at the massive oil slick, and the containment booms which have been deployed. richard louie is in dauphin island, alabama. how is the weather holding up. reporter: we spoke an hour ago, it was less windy at that time, we had sunlight behind us. you can see we have full cloud cover. he ll be able to get a nice aerial view of what s been deployed. what i will also say to give you some context behind me, there are no booms. just yesterday we had booms that had collapsed and they were recovering them, and then on friday, is when they put out initially about 300 yards of booms. they had to remove them because of the sea current. he may see a little bit changed since his last visit over this part of his state. now he s going to be in mobile a little later, that s where we came from this morning. we headed down to bayou la batre ....