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Facebook to Launch iPad App, Preparing Web-Based Mobile Platform
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Not entirely true. With their network of "Like" buttons, Facebook is trying to track everybody. You don't need to press any buttons yourself; You need to be proactive to keep Facebook off of your computer and most don't bother with that. Apple does make mistakes, and I don't like some aspects of the closed down ecosystem, but they are much more honest than Facebook (or Google for that matter). The latter live off of your invaded privacy.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)
the two stories have little parallel. Z blatantly stole IP and developed FB while misleading the people he was supposed to be working for, we all know the story...There are few totally original ideas, every good seed of an idea is expanded and developed upon until it is worthy of being revolutionary. No, Jobs is not the only man responsible for the evolution of the PC, just someone dho was able to help make it revolutionary. Z did the the same, but along with way he was, IMO, significantly less honest and morally sound in his methods.
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the two stories have little parallel. Z blatantly stole IP and developed FB while misleading the people he was supposed to be working for, we all know the story...There are few totally original ideas, every good seed of an idea is expanded and developed upon until it is worthy of being revolutionary. No, Jobs is not the only man responsible for the evolution of the PC, just someone dho was able to help make it revolutionary. Z did the the same, but along with way he was, IMO, significantly less honest and morally sound in his methods.
Because Facebook's developers (starting historically with Z-man) apparently can't program their way out of a paper bag.
Face it... FaceBook is probably the most pathetic web design I've ever seen.
Can't modify posts without deleting and re-posting? Really?
Page re-draws happen when you've been reading half-way down the page for over a minute, scrolling your current position to god knows where?
And don't even start about the intentional maze that is their security settings.
That said, what's the big fear that's supposed to have Apple quivering in their boots about the 'app store'. A place to download web-apps? Big deal. Maybe the fact that they'll somehow allow web-app scripters to commoditize their widgets? Hardly competition for polished apps on THE App Store.
I'll get the iPad app, but only to see if they figure out how do do such a simple thing right for a change.
The word is 'licensed'. Look it up sometime before spewing.
And before Jobs licensed it, it was sitting on a shelf in PARC gathering dust.
Innovation means actually producing things. Otherwise I assume you're on the side of the patent trolls?
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Very true. I saw FB back in 2005 and thought it was pathetic for web technology, not to mention the performance and hiccups. Flash forward to 2011 and IT'S STILL JUNK CODE!
Thankfully I only login about once a week for a 3 minute visit...and that's ONLY if I get some kind of email alert regarding one of my "friends".
FB doesn't have to be cutting edge but anyone who's familiar with web technology will agree it's poorly managed...and I can't agree with you more about their Security settings and ease of use with Security...the worst I think I've ever seen/used for a web or think client application. Seriously.
What's sad is that I've come to like the product despite the sophomoric interface. Speaks well of the concept.
I've reconnected some incredible friendships through FB and enjoy my threads. But I keep them as limited as I can in scope. It bothers me that FB tries its best to keep tearing down my limits by changing the rules on the fly.
Not sure I would prefer the App over being able to use the regular web page, despite photo upload limits. As others have said, improve the often frustrating phone App, on which the full web-site is useless.
Don't get me started... Some features are a joke:
Like when you tap a notification that leads to the wrong album/picture.
Like when you tap a notification about a comment on a picture and the picture shows no comments/likes whatsoever, or they are way outdated. (Swiping back and forth to another pic fixes it sometimes)
Like when you tap a notification and it leads you nowhere.
Like when "ghost" notification badges appear and disappear, that have no counterpart whatsoever in the notifications list.
I would sound like an whiney entitlement b**ch if this thing were actually free.
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But the truth is, I need to find something better to do in my 5-minute segments of spare time... Like yelling at the 9to5Mac website that doesn't let you scroll at all until all the comments load (i.e., 5 seconds short of forever), forcing you back to the same scroll position on every little increase of the address/progress bar... Or the Apple Insider "Reply" button that doesn't let you reply, but instead scolds you towards the 'Quick Reply' button or something...
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I haven't seen the actual code/bloat, but the website interface is quite responsive and from the outside it looks pretty much state-of-the-art 'ajax' stuff if you ask me.
...But I agree the privacy settings thing is a scam. And they change it like every two weeks and silently default you into "Share my everything with FB's partners" (OK, I'm exaggerating a bit)
I see what you did
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Nice. This is certain to become the most downloaded app for months to come.
Perhaps even forever.
Maybe I'll actually start using facebook a bit more than once or twice every month again.
The Social Network has really become quite uninteresting imho. A smooth and gorgeous touch interface/experience could work wonders.
Perhaps even forever.
Maybe I'll actually start using facebook a bit more than once or twice every month again.
The Social Network has really become quite uninteresting imho. A smooth and gorgeous touch interface/experience could work wonders.
So you don't own any smart phones or cell phone for that matter? You know, your internet useage is being tracked right now!
Yes, I realize when you introduce complexity you introduce more chances for bugs to happen. But you know, I use all sorts of software that I'm sure is just as complex if not more than Facebook and it manages to work without quirks or with so few I haven't found them. So it's not like they are trying to do the impossible.
But here is the thing... Facebook doesn't just introduce complexity, they don't bother to fix their old bugs. NOt only that, FB is really bad about taking functions you liked and purposely removing them!! For stuff that is worse! So not only do they not improve how their code works, they make how their website works worse.
Shoot, I downloaded a plugin, better facebook, that solves some of their problems for them. So obviously it's not like they are bugs that are impossible to find/fix. Facebook just doesn't care.
They know they have the audience now and the audience will use them regardless of if they work well or not. They aren't focused on fixing the bugs because they don't have people threatening to leave over them (they don't care if you complain long as you stay and give them data they can sell to marketers). They are only focused on how to convince/trick you into giving up more info they can sell.
But here is the thing... Facebook doesn't just introduce complexity, they don't bother to fix their old bugs. NOt only that, FB is really bad about taking functions you liked and purposely removing them!! For stuff that is worse! So not only do they not improve how their code works, they make how their website works worse.
Shoot, I downloaded a plugin, better facebook, that solves some of their problems for them. So obviously it's not like they are bugs that are impossible to find/fix. Facebook just doesn't care.
They know they have the audience now and the audience will use them regardless of if they work well or not. They aren't focused on fixing the bugs because they don't have people threatening to leave over them (they don't care if you complain long as you stay and give them data they can sell to marketers). They are only focused on how to convince/trick you into giving up more info they can sell.
