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Facebook App Killing iOS Popularity
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Let me give you a reality check. Have you used Facebook on anything other than the iOS app? The website itself, on a current computer, is slower to update than on iOS and hangs frequently. It isn't the app, it's the amount of users and Facebook's backend that is the slow down.
As for the iOS app it has gotten a lot faster and more feature rich (they finally added post/comment editing and posting pictures in comments). If you think it's slow and buggy now you obviously haven't used it on iOS 6 last year or don't remember (before the total rewrite). Half the time it wouldn't show notifications. I'm sure it's not incredibly fast on a 4 but on a 5+ it's actually more usable than the website.
It's currently still buggy and somewhat crash prone (maybe a few times a week) but no where near how bad it used to be (crashed multiple times a day without fail).
As for the iOS app it has gotten a lot faster and more feature rich (they finally added post/comment editing and posting pictures in comments). If you think it's slow and buggy now you obviously haven't used it on iOS 6 last year or don't remember (before the total rewrite). Half the time it wouldn't show notifications. I'm sure it's not incredibly fast on a 4 but on a 5+ it's actually more usable than the website.
It's currently still buggy and somewhat crash prone (maybe a few times a week) but no where near how bad it used to be (crashed multiple times a day without fail).
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You must have something wrong with your device or app. Did you try deleting the app and reinstalling? I'm using FB app on both an iPad 4 and iPhone 5 with no issues whatsoever. Ditto on my daughter's iPhone 4s and son's iPhone 4. All of us use it multiple times an hour.
Regarding users flocking away from FB, they may be using additional social channels (Instagram, Twitter, etc.) but they hardly abandoning FB. Who was it that said kid's don't want to use iPhones anymore because their parents do? Must be on the same drugs....
Regarding users flocking away from FB, they may be using additional social channels (Instagram, Twitter, etc.) but they hardly abandoning FB. Who was it that said kid's don't want to use iPhones anymore because their parents do? Must be on the same drugs....
If you're letting Facebook decide which OS platform your mobile phone runs then you seriously need to get a life.
Sounds great until you move away from everyone you grew up with and still want to stay in touch. People use Facebook because it allows them to be social with others that aren't necessarily in their current area. As much as you don't understand why someone likes Facebook I don't understand why someone doesn't. It's much faster and more useful to read up on how they are doing and see pictures of their kids, etc. than it is to call everyone constantly.
Oh, and not everyone is still single. Yeah, so ....
When I had the GS4, while typing in the Facebook app, the whole phone restarted and when I opened the app again, I was logged out. The Facebook app on iOS could be better, but it's much better than what I got on Android or at least that version of it.
I have more friends complaining about how poorly he Facebook app works for them on their Android phones, and almost none who complain how it works on their iPhone. So, what does that say? Pretty much that there really isn't a particular widespread or horrible issue with the app on any platform--just thst some people have different kinds of issues with the app in different platforms, as is the case with many apps in general. Facebook just has probably way more users than most other apps, so the number of people who might have some sort of issues with it can easily be arger compared to other apps mainly just because of that.
I don't have as many complaints about the app as I used to. My main issue lately is the delay in notifications coming up. So when I open the app and look around and then close it the red number pops up on the app icon but it wasn't there in the app. And of course when I re-open the app it's there. The Facebook app used to be pretty awful but it has definitely gotten better.
Oh hey, it's one of those threads where some people on the Internet criticize other people on the Internet for allegedly not having a life because they're on the Internet.
Interesting trolling attempt. There are no serious problems, it may not (and is not) a perfect application but there is no widespread problem.
Nice try
Except most people aren't experiencing this issues. The Facebook app runs great on my year old iPhone 5 and my friend's iPhone 4S. I'm sure it's even better on the 5s.
So they're moving to a new Android phone because their old iPhone had performance problems? How does this even make any sense? Do they somehow think a new iPhone would perform the same as their old one? Not trying to imply that it's illogical to switch to Android, but that sure is a poor reason to do so.
And no, Apple does not intentionally "hobble" older devices. They actually support devices older than two years old unlike the vast majority of Android manufacturers. As hardware gets newer, software is written to take advantage of that new hardware. The iPhone 5s is twice as fast as the 5, which is twice as fast as the 4S, which is twice as fast as the 4. It's completely unreasonable to expect remotely similar performance from an iPhone 4 and an iPhone 5s. Did the iPhone 4 run iOS 4 far better than it runs iOS 7 now? You better believe it! Look at how much more demanding today's apps are compared to the apps of 2010. Look at how different iOS 7 is compared to iOS 4, both externally (visual translucency, for example) and internally (APIs and features).
Now, as to Android "performing well years later"- you must have a funny definition of "well", because older Android phones (many of which are stuck on Gingerbread) absolutely do not perform well. The state of Android is much better now than it was a few years ago, so this is a topic worth revisiting in 2015 or so. But phones released around the time of the iPhone 4 absolutely didn't stand the test of time.
I'm sorry the Facebook app is terrible for you and your friends, but you're really making a mountain out of a molehill.
This. Chances are high that they'll come crawling back, especially going to Samsung.
Seeing as they are on an old iPhone (about 3-4 years old) compare it to old Android phones, not the Note 3. Also, if they have the app installed a while, and it is used a lot, tell them to delete and uninstall to delete cache of unneeded data.
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Hahahahahahahaha the best joke today. Since FB has a "bad" app on iOS you guys moved to Android which has an ever crappier FB app?!
I actually uninstalled it on my Nexus 7 because I got no notifications or notifications that were dismissed on iOS. Results vary though.
Have you tried to delete the app and re install it? It may make difference! I have used FB on my iPhone 5 and now on my iPhone 5s but to be honest I have no issues. It have sometime it's moments but is lot better then it used to be.
As for the FB popularity, there are always 3 kind of people: 1-Ones who love something, 2- Ones who don't, or don't care about something, 3- Ones who hate something. The ones who hate it will always try to tell you how something is not popular, is crap, useless and all that BS. It's always good to ignore this group. Personally I am not a huge fan of FB but I use it frequently and helps me stay in touch with my friends and relatives around the globe.
The Facebook app on iOS does have some issues. It's annoying but not the end of the world. To be honest, the app used to be a LOT worse. I do prefer the Facebook app on Android to the one on iOS, but it certainly isn't the reason that I switched.
iOS FB app is much better and it's built for one handed use. Simple gestures like flicking up in a photo to minimize it doesn't happen on Android.
Speaking of Android's FB, the chat head labels that are system wide become a pain in the ass after the first day and just a waste of space on your screen. It's bad enough we have a lot of our info loaded on FB, I refuse to chat in FB for IM/MSG/Mail and don't want to feed them even more personal data for their marketing allocation.
Speaking of Android's FB, the chat head labels that are system wide become a pain in the ass after the first day and just a waste of space on your screen. It's bad enough we have a lot of our info loaded on FB, I refuse to chat in FB for IM/MSG/Mail and don't want to feed them even more personal data for their marketing allocation.
If some people base their entire use of a phone on a single application, it's fine for them to choose the best device at it.
Claiming that a single bugged application is killing an OS is nonsense. I have never heard people jumping from a platform to another if not for work related applications, and never on a mobile OS.
Claiming that a single bugged application is killing an OS is nonsense. I have never heard people jumping from a platform to another if not for work related applications, and never on a mobile OS.
Facebook app has always been slow, no better/worse with iOS7 with respect to performance but general updates have been positive. My view is that the facebook servers are overloaded/underspecified. There is no way I'd change my iPhone due to facebook, not in a million years
