The much-hyped Facebook Home launcher for Android has now crossed half a million downloads on the Google Play Store, within a week of it’s launch. This figure isn’t quite encouraging for Facebook as some of the other popular apps were much more successful when they first went live on Google Play Store. For instance, as TechCrunch notes, the popular photo sharing app Instagram saw 1 million downloads within 24 hours of it’s launch and over 5 million downloads within 6 days of it’s availability on the Google Play Store.
Facebook Home was released for the users in the United States on April 12, and later, on April 16, the service was extended to other international users as well.
One of the major reasons for this modest number could be the fact that facebook Home is only supported on a limited number of devices at present, which include Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note 2, HTC One X and HTC One X+.
To make things even more discouraging for Facebook, the Facebook Home launcher has received mostly negative reviews, with a quite low average user rating of 2.2.
While there is no denying that Facebook Home has received a poor start, but a clearer picture will be out once the launcher is available on a large chunk of Android devices. So, we guess we’ll have to hold up our verdict till then.
In the mean time, if you aren’t using any of the supported smartphones but still wish to install Facebook Home on your Android smartphone, you can get step-by-step instructions here.
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