Facebook: “I am in your phone, killing all your d00dz.”
Login on your laptop and see. The app is probably wrong.
My wife said that this evening during a conversation about someone “un-friending” me on Facebook. Apparently the results she gets in Facebook on the iPhone are not always what she gets in the browser. I have established that the functionality of the Facebook app is suspect, but this situation got me thinking about perception.
Recently I have found that the latest updates to the Facebook app have addressed the lions-share of hugely inconvenient bugs and lack of features that have plagued it. But Facebook, by offering up a feature-incomplete product, have now set the bar so low that it has little chance of redeeming itself.
On Wednesday, Facebook made their anticipated mobile announcement, and broke lots of hearts by saying a Facebook phone is not a reality. Instead, they unveiled Deals, a complete ripoff of Foursquare’s business model. Founder Mark Zuckerberg told the attendees of the press event that Facebook had no plans to make its own phone, instead their strategy to to make all phones more social.
All your base are belong to us.
