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iOS 6 to Bring Systemwide Facebook Integration
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Won't be switching that rubbish on. Don't have a FB account for privacy reasons. I'm not a sheep or a lemming!
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I feel sorry for you. Facebook is boring a hell so I delted it. That and a still care for a little privacy. Oh and it's got to be the worst group of coders ever!
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I feel sorry for you. Facebook is boring a hell so I delted it. That and a still care for a little privacy. Oh and it's got to be the worst group of coders ever!
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Yes lets all bow down to our god, Mark. That guy has the whole world in his pocket. Hes a dangerous dictator.
Lets give him even more power.
Lets give him even more power.
I don't care that everyone is crying like uneducated drama queens because GAME OF THONES and MAD MEN is on tonight.
Nothing to freak out about
The iOS integration of Facebook will occur similar to the way Twitter integration works today. Do you freak out about that today? Here's how it will probably work.
If you have the Facebook app installed, you can type in your username and password in a system setting. This is exposed as an SDK in the OS. That means someone like me (a developer) can see if you've enabled Facebook integration and do all the Facebook things I do today except in a much less intrusive way. Facebook and iOS has always been clunky because Facebook is web-based and requires you to use their Facebook Connect API.
This will also add user interfaces to do things like allow you to share WITHOUT using the Facebook app which is terribly clunky and slow. It could also integrate with the Photos and Contacts app, but will most likely be a setting that is disabled by default.
In the end, if you don't want it, don't enter your Facebook credentials and you don't get it.
As for being pissed that an iOS update is going to consume your precious gigabytes... you best just get over that bitterness, or just don't upgrade the OS if it bothers you that much.
The iOS integration of Facebook will occur similar to the way Twitter integration works today. Do you freak out about that today? Here's how it will probably work.
If you have the Facebook app installed, you can type in your username and password in a system setting. This is exposed as an SDK in the OS. That means someone like me (a developer) can see if you've enabled Facebook integration and do all the Facebook things I do today except in a much less intrusive way. Facebook and iOS has always been clunky because Facebook is web-based and requires you to use their Facebook Connect API.
This will also add user interfaces to do things like allow you to share WITHOUT using the Facebook app which is terribly clunky and slow. It could also integrate with the Photos and Contacts app, but will most likely be a setting that is disabled by default.
In the end, if you don't want it, don't enter your Facebook credentials and you don't get it.
As for being pissed that an iOS update is going to consume your precious gigabytes... you best just get over that bitterness, or just don't upgrade the OS if it bothers you that much.
And this is EXACTLY why system-level integration is a pathetic thing to start with...but pray tell, what would a developer like you do with my FB login?
First World Problems
Geez, I can't believe the number of people who are getting their panties in a twist over something so benign. Are you that myopic that you are getting upset about the an iOS increasing in size by maybe 500kb? Of giving you and option to integrate with something your want to integrate with? Really?
You know what? There are real problems in the world. Problems like a rape epidemic in South Africa and sexual slavery in Asia. There are more slaves today then ever before. Why don't you concern yourself with that instead of being duped into a reality that revolves around yourself? Maybe apply your passion to something that really is a problem and these other things won't bother you so much.
Geez, I can't believe the number of people who are getting their panties in a twist over something so benign. Are you that myopic that you are getting upset about the an iOS increasing in size by maybe 500kb? Of giving you and option to integrate with something your want to integrate with? Really?
You know what? There are real problems in the world. Problems like a rape epidemic in South Africa and sexual slavery in Asia. There are more slaves today then ever before. Why don't you concern yourself with that instead of being duped into a reality that revolves around yourself? Maybe apply your passion to something that really is a problem and these other things won't bother you so much.
And this is EXACTLY why system-level integration is a pathetic thing to start with...but pray tell, what would a developer like you do with my FB login?
He says he would know if you use it or not. Not that he would know your name, much less your Facebook login.
You do, though (I'm assuming) have a face and a book.....
"a facebook" btw is not as clever as the now (overused and in decline) "the internets."
But I do keep asking myself why people (sometimes vehemently and bitterly) complain about the addition of features they don't have to use or interact with? I've never used Address Book, errr, contacts, Calendar, Apple Mail, services, etc. (GMail and its associated services propagate that stuff everywhere for me well enough), but it doesn't bother me that they exist...
Got to say, even if you look through my tweets and my "profile", you won't have anywhere near the information that one would if they look at a Facebook account.
I think all of us have the right to remain anonymous on the internet, Facebook included. There is nothing wrong with people who want privacy, and if you don't like privacy then good for you.
Having Facebook integration is an option, therefore views will be polarizing, it's expected.
He says he would know if you use it or not. Not that he would know your name, much less your Facebook login.
Obviously I know that; my question is about what a developer would do once I am logged into FB...something like "Brlawyer just liked [name your app here]!", "Brlawyer just played [name your app here]" or perhaps "Brlawyer likes [name your app here]".
No, thanks.
Disagree.
There is no right to anonymity on the internet, nor should there be.
Just as there is no right to anonymity while driving a car down the highway.
Just like how it works now, it would do whatever you give it permission to do.
Don't want to give the app access to post on your wall? Don't do so.
How are you not anonymous on the highway?... The only way to identify you is identifying your face, so wear a mask (don't even think that is illegal?).
Why do you feel sorry for me? Facebook got me a few unsolicited dates cause my profile is open to friends of friends. And it properly made an impact on getting my girlfriend too.. Chicks love funny self irony. If Facebook is boring, it is because you don't have an interesting life in the first place. You make the content, not the other way around.
Video cameras everywhere, and license plates on all vehicles.
You do something stupid, it's easy to report you, and easy to track you down.
So you identified the car, not the driver... like the internet, you identified the computer, not the user.
The owner of the car has certain responsibilities under the law - so the placque is often all that is needed.
If it's your car, you have to prove that you weren't driving....
It's pretty sad that you disagree to something like that. I guess you're all pro SOPA and total Internet control by governments like China.
Care to explain why you disagree? Why shouldn't there be a right?
Only fools would make this post negative...
Facebook has turned into Creeping and the Chat
Twitter is for people who are actually social and can interact with others more frequently.
So my question is: is this going to be another thing I will not be able to delete from my phone like the useless and unwanted GameCenter?
I hate FB too, like many of the people who have posted here and while I have a page because I had to... I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER use it on my phone!!!! Facebook already has to much info about me and my phone info would be the last straw.
If iOS 6 forces me to have a Facebook app on my phone I will not be getting a iPhone 5 and will be moving to an Android.
db <--- apple developer since 1985
I hate FB too, like many of the people who have posted here and while I have a page because I had to... I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER use it on my phone!!!! Facebook already has to much info about me and my phone info would be the last straw.
If iOS 6 forces me to have a Facebook app on my phone I will not be getting a iPhone 5 and will be moving to an Android.
db <--- apple developer since 1985