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iOS 6 to Bring Systemwide Facebook Integration
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I'm happy about this - providing it's well integrated and faster than the standalone app, which is bizarrely slow.
People making judgement calls about "Facebook users" as a whole.. That's beyond moronic. So many people use social networks for so many different reasons. I don't have any friends who big themselves up or use theirs as social crutches. They just share things with each other.
It doesn't matter if you think FB will be dead in a few years either.. Apple would just support whatever else is relevant at that time. Given that phones are social/communications devices it makes sense that they have as good support as possible for all of the current, most popular forms of digital comms. Ignoring major players will only hurt apple.
People making judgement calls about "Facebook users" as a whole.. That's beyond moronic. So many people use social networks for so many different reasons. I don't have any friends who big themselves up or use theirs as social crutches. They just share things with each other.
It doesn't matter if you think FB will be dead in a few years either.. Apple would just support whatever else is relevant at that time. Given that phones are social/communications devices it makes sense that they have as good support as possible for all of the current, most popular forms of digital comms. Ignoring major players will only hurt apple.
Many here are responding as if this is goind to be a required thing. Can you honestly thing Apple is going to A. Require a Facebook login and B. Require you to receive notifications? If it's anything like Twitter integration, it's a simple and quick means of updating Facebook information. AFAIK one cannot even really check Twitter on iOS without installing an additional app. I have no reason to believe this would be any different with Facebook.
And for the record, I don't even use facebook, except for tracking my runs.
And for the record, I don't even use facebook, except for tracking my runs.
Simples. Because pervasive integration will make it even easier and more intrusive for apps to force you into using an effing FB login to use them. This is ALREADY the case for hundreds if not thousands of apps out there, and will get even worse once Apple embraces Mark Sugarloaf's nirvana.
Again: I DO NOT want people to know which app I am using tonight, and I DO NOT want to provide greedy developers with virtually-automatic public endorsement of their crap. Apple's move will just make this worse, especially since most of the time you can't even tell an app to not post itself on your FB wall.
But you could always say: "don't install those apps, then!" - well, if the trend continued and I adopted such a radical approach, I would then have 10 apps instead of 100 on my iPad. Got it now? Or should I create now a dummy FB account just to cope with that privacy black hole?
there better be some kind of fb & twitter feed widget coming along with it
and to those people complaining, theres an idea ... just dont sign in??? problem solved
apps dont make much sense either because they arent deeply integrated and u cant access it from anywhere in the OS. i for one welcome that change
and to those people complaining, theres an idea ... just dont sign in??? problem solved
apps dont make much sense either because they arent deeply integrated and u cant access it from anywhere in the OS. i for one welcome that change
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I do use fb but do not want it integrated. I want it kept in its own little box away from everything else on my phone. So I want to keep the app and turn off the integration. I hope this is possible. If not, I'll use the web app only.
People here are too smart to listen to logic don't ya know? They just like to moan about every little thing - they actually like to complain about things that don't even exist yet more than things that do. It's quite remarkable.
One problem with iOS is that, even if you don't have a Twitter account enabled under settings, you still get the "tweet" menu option in several apps. Hell, even if you deny those apps access to Twitter, you STILL get the menu option (and an error if you try to use it).
I don't really care, because I actually use Twitter. But I don't use Facebook, and would rather not see a "post on wall" button in apps if I don't have a FB account. If Apple would fix the OS to not show these menu options when the corresponding account is not enabled, that would be great. But as it stands, their design is flawed.
I don't really care, because I actually use Twitter. But I don't use Facebook, and would rather not see a "post on wall" button in apps if I don't have a FB account. If Apple would fix the OS to not show these menu options when the corresponding account is not enabled, that would be great. But as it stands, their design is flawed.
mmmh thats actually implemented by the devs of that particularly app and has nothing to do with apple or the OS
A small point but a good one. That tweet thing is. (minor) annoyance for those of us not on twitter.
Wow I was coming here to say this was a pretty cool addition but now I feel like it would have been similar to stepping up to the podium and getting booed and run out of town.
So *quietly whispers* yay?
So *quietly whispers* yay?
insanity
Let's hope that you can truly turn Facebook off. For some reason, I highly doubt you'll be able to turn it off completely. Facebook sells your personal data (or whatever you've liked, written, or posted) and who's to say the close-knit integration of Facebook in iOS6 won't do the same. I don't trust them and nor should any professionals in their respective fields. Apple should, at most, treat it like Siri. If you want it, download the add-on - otherwise keep it out of my phone.
Let's hope that you can truly turn Facebook off. For some reason, I highly doubt you'll be able to turn it off completely. Facebook sells your personal data (or whatever you've liked, written, or posted) and who's to say the close-knit integration of Facebook in iOS6 won't do the same. I don't trust them and nor should any professionals in their respective fields. Apple should, at most, treat it like Siri. If you want it, download the add-on - otherwise keep it out of my phone.
huh. What does this have to do with anything! Does twitter integration put your personal information all over the web?
People who use the Facebook app everyday (like me) will find this feature incredibly useful and is a very very welcome addition to iOS.
This is a terminally stupid idea!
There is absolutely no reason to integrate Facebook into the operating system.
Assuming they integrate it in the same way that Twitter is integrated, give me one reason why this is a problem for you.
Someone did mention that the option to Tweet things shows up and I can understand that is a minor annoyance. So, other than that....what is the big deal??
Facebook doesn't need Apple to survive, they are doing an OK job as is. Sure their share price isn't doing so well, but thats a number of unrelated reasons.
iPhone isn't the be all and end all... There's still a market for a Facebook phone - they don't have to sell millions.. 0.5% of the smartphone market will need rake in profits. Any Facebook phone would probably be Android.
I wonder if facebook made it known to Apple that they had plans to build a Facebook phone before Apple decided to add facebook iOS integration.
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Yeah this seems to be lost among the "FB is for kids who don't socialize" crowd. The number of active FB users is supposed to hit 1 billion by the end of this year. A lot of them are iOS users. This feature is for them.
Twitter by comparison only has about 150 million actives.
Make a dummy FB account
Or make a real account and leave your profile blank and don't make any connections
There, win/win and FB doesn't have any info to persecute you for whatever you think they're gonna persecute you for.
Personally I think the whole privacy angle is overblown and perpetuated by people who don't take the time to learn the privacy controls, or are in the habit of spewing their life history every time they sign up for something . If you don't want FB to monetize off your info or you're paranoid about your info being misused, don't give them your info in the first place, don't post pictures, etc
It is amazing how a feature that could have easily been implemented in iOS 5 alongside Twitter, is probably gonna be announced one of the "killer features" of iOS 6. Seriously, there is no way this feature wasn't ready back then, as this takes maybe 2 days of programming.
If we are lucky iOS 7 comes with an "all new" Google+ integration and iOS 8 finally brings us widgets. It's not like I'm not excited about the little features iOS 6 will bring, I just hate the fact that Apple and the community makes such a big deal out of tiny features, most of them on the wish-list for years and a standard feature in Android.
It's time for some huge leaps in iOS 6, not just those nice too have things other developers would hide in the changelog because it's nothing special. Take for instance the 3G-switch reintroduced with iOS 5.1 - such a big deal to everyone, although it should have never disappeared in the first place. Apple introduces a new settings-switch and everyone goes crazy about it. Why?
I just hope they introduce a settings dialog for Twitter/Facebook integration for people who only use one of the two services or don't want to have every menu flooded with social network buttons.
If we are lucky iOS 7 comes with an "all new" Google+ integration and iOS 8 finally brings us widgets. It's not like I'm not excited about the little features iOS 6 will bring, I just hate the fact that Apple and the community makes such a big deal out of tiny features, most of them on the wish-list for years and a standard feature in Android.
It's time for some huge leaps in iOS 6, not just those nice too have things other developers would hide in the changelog because it's nothing special. Take for instance the 3G-switch reintroduced with iOS 5.1 - such a big deal to everyone, although it should have never disappeared in the first place. Apple introduces a new settings-switch and everyone goes crazy about it. Why?
I just hope they introduce a settings dialog for Twitter/Facebook integration for people who only use one of the two services or don't want to have every menu flooded with social network buttons.