The project’s goal is to undermine Apple’s App Store with a web application that can infiltrate millions of iOS devices. Forget the buggy Facebook app, iPhone owners could use a mobile version of Facebook that is lean, mean and outside the reach of Apple’s control.
Eighty developers are supposedly working on the project including those from companies like Zynga. Games and credits will be included so you can farm to your heart’s content. And yes, it will land on Android but the first target is iOS.
Here’s something to think about if this rumour pans out. Adobe Flash is gone, Apple is gone and everything will be channeled through Facebook. Scary, huh?[TechCrunch]
anthome
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 1:31 PMSoon you will be able to buy a Facebook phone.
Oh wait… http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_technews/20110215/tc_yblog_technews/htcs-facebook-phones-revealed
Dave
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 3:03 PMUmmm I would think that Apple would LOVE Facebook pushing towards HTML5 as it’ll just push towards the point that Flash is dyeing. I would love flash on my iPhone / iPad if it wasn’t such a huge CPU and battery hog. I do however like to be able to use my device at the end of the day without having to recharge.
Harvz
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 4:26 PMi hate to break your heart but flash is really quite a good experience on android, you just set it to on demand and when u wanna view a flash video just click on it and it loads up. and ive never seen it eating up the battery in the statistics
Oddie
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 5:43 PMFlash on Android is actually terrible. On my Desire Z, videos run at about 10 frames per second and games are unplayable plus it means WAY more ads.
John Dowdell
Friday, June 17, 2011 at 5:46 AMHmm. If you’re seeing only ten frames a second, then that’s much less than what other people are reporting on YouTube for that device:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22htc+desire%22+%22adobe+flash%22&aq=f
(I came across one video there which had slow playback, but that YouTube video was from April 2010, during the time when all the moving pieces were coming together.)
For “too many ads”, if you actually use Flash you know about the load-on-demand, right? The third-party content a site serves is independent of the format of that content.
jd/adobe
richard
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 6:45 PMVideo is one of the less interesting uses of flash but and hardly the benchmark I’d use to measure whether its a good experience or not. HTML5 based sites can do video just as well.
Flash games and other more advanced and interactive content are afar better way to measure how well flash really works on mobile devices.
Dave C
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 11:09 PMunfortunately for you flash games and interactive content also run poorly on android. I have tried on a Galaxy S, HTC desire and Nexus S, which I think is a good cross section of devices.
luck
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 3:10 PMit’s not like facebook will control the whole phone. it’s just one more option. options are good.
(i’m no facebook fanboy)
Liam Johnson
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 3:25 PMAnything to replace the current Facebook app for Android… Please.
Nathaniel
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 3:46 PMProject Spartan? BRING ME MASTER CHIEF!!!