Facebook Home Hits Half-Million Downloads

Is Facebook Home a hit? The reception for this Android software has been decidedly mixed, but there is at least one statistic the social network can tout: As of this weekend, Home has been downloaded more than 500,000 times

That's not a bad showing for an app that launched just over a week ago, on April 12, in the Google Play store. It also doesn't count sales of the HTC First, the first phone to come with Facebook Home pre-loaded

It isn't the best showing possible — for comparison, 500,000 new Android devices are registered every 12 hoursHome is only supported on four Android devices so far; then again, many of those half-million downloads may come from users who didn't realize they couldn't install it on their Android device. Read more...