'Delayed' Facebook iPad app claims lead coder casualty The release of a Facebook iPad app remains in stasis despite the fact that it has been worked on for the best part of a year. Now a lead developer at the social network has quit the firm and vented his frustrations about the delay. Jeff Verkoeyen initially wrote on his blog, as spotted by TechCrunch, that he had ditched his …
So Facebook releases an iPad app with presumably feature parity with their current iPhone app. Makes sense. Not sure why anyone would delay the release because they want more FB integration with the OS. Maybe FB is holding the iPad app hostage as a negotiating chip with Apple?
I'm unclear on how FB integration with the OS is helpful anyway. Even on Windows Phone and various flavors of Android that supposedly have deep FB integration, all I ever see is people using the FB app. It's not that hard to get to the app and use it, just one tap. Not sure how 'integration' is supposed to make that better.
Apple" "you want what?"
rolls around on the floor laughing like a Policeman.
Apple guy1 says after the meeting to his boss
"Did they really think we would let them have access to all that neat stuff we collect about our users?"
Boss smiles.
"Do they think we were born yesterday."
Ok, ok. I know.
I would assume that Facebook are running scared of Google.
There are more Android users every day than there are iPhone users this is now fact.
Facebook ruined their relationship with Google over the contacts issue and Facebook have publicly tried to wipe the floor with Google - and failed.
Deeper integration into the OS probably means things like - sharing a webpage directly to Facebook, taking a photo with the camera and sharing it directly to Facebook.
Because of the Intents system on Android this is already possible without having to have deep integration - but Facebook are obviously relying on the fact that the easier it is to post something to Facebook direct from the phone - the more people will use it.
Now though they are probably assuming (as am I) that Ice Cream Sandwich will likely feature Google+ integration directly into the OS - this would likely mean that a good 60-70% of Ice Cream Sandwich users would share to Google+ over Facebook.
It's really funny actually - if Facebook wanted to keep Android users - using the service - all they have to do is release an app that works, is not overly slow to do anything with, works on a low bandwidth connection - and most importantly - the core part of Facebook....... GIVES ME A NOTIFICATION WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS!
The Twitter app and the G+ app both manage (in the most part) to deliver a realtime notification when something happens. Facebook for some reason over the course of the life of the application have never managed this :/
Wasn't the new Facebook iPad app going to be purely HTML5-based? And presumably that means it can't work with deep iOS APIs, so features such as syncing your Facebook contacts with your iPhone contact book can't be replicated. That might be what the dispute with Apple was about.
Other sources claim that Apple and Facebook will jointly announce something at the Apple event on October 4th.
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