wraggster
August 25th, 2012, 22:04
Social giant knows its Android app sucks so is eating its own dog food.
A report in Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-android-app-employees-2012-8) says that Facebook is encouraging (and in some cases ordering) its staff to give up their iPhones for Android devices.
However, this is not because of a Facebook/Apple dispute, rather it's because the social media monster knows how bad its Android app is, so is making its developers live with it as an incentive to make improvements.
This process, known as dogfooding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food), is common in the tech industry.
The last update to the iOS Facebook app made it a native iOS experience rather than using the HTML5 from the website, so maybe we're going to see a native Android experience as well.
While using HTML5 has worked quite well in some respects, it has led to inconsistencies between browser and app accessibility, particularly since Facebook rolled out Timeline.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/facebook-forcing-its-employees-to-use-android/019146
A report in Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-android-app-employees-2012-8) says that Facebook is encouraging (and in some cases ordering) its staff to give up their iPhones for Android devices.
However, this is not because of a Facebook/Apple dispute, rather it's because the social media monster knows how bad its Android app is, so is making its developers live with it as an incentive to make improvements.
This process, known as dogfooding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food), is common in the tech industry.
The last update to the iOS Facebook app made it a native iOS experience rather than using the HTML5 from the website, so maybe we're going to see a native Android experience as well.
While using HTML5 has worked quite well in some respects, it has led to inconsistencies between browser and app accessibility, particularly since Facebook rolled out Timeline.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/facebook-forcing-its-employees-to-use-android/019146