Thursday, June 9, 2011

Facebook for Android

Today at their mobile event in Palo Alto, CA, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed one thing fascinating and rather humorous. It’s no secret that Facebook’s Android app has long been type of a lame very little cousin to their wonderful iPhone app. however does one apprehend why? Well it’s principally Google’s fault. You see, they acquired the developer Facebook had employed to create the app.

“Yeah, i believed that was obnoxious,” Zuckerberg said these days after we asked him regarding it following the event. everybody within the area burst out in laughter at that.

Zuckerberg said it absolutely was a very tiny look that Facebook had contracted to create the app — he was quickly corrected that it absolutely was truly additional like one developer. “But it absolutely was the most factor they were acting on. It wasn’t love it was some look and that’s why Google had to shop for them,” Zuckerberg continued, clearly still holding slightly of a grudge regarding it.

“Obviously, it wasn’t an enormous deal. however it positively set us back for a jiffy,” he noted. Zuckerberg said that they puzzled out a briefing to use the code the developer had written for the app up till then, however that he clearly couldn’t work on it anymore. ”It was reasonably frustrating.”

Previously, it absolutely was thought that Google was truly serving to Facebook to create their Android app — once the social network indicated it wasn’t a priority. however this makes additional sense on why it absolutely was therefore dangerous for thus long — Google screwed over Facebook on it.

Facebook is finally building the Android app in house currently. and that they truly updated it these days that a variety of recent options to match the opposite versions out there.

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