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His insight into jumping to mobile at the very beginning Wha? This is revisionist history. Facebook was very late to having a mobile app. It was widely ridic
by reaperducer 4y ago
His insight into jumping to mobile at the very beginning
Wha? This is revisionist history.
Facebook was very late to having a mobile app. It was widely ridiculed for a very long time for not having an iPhone app, and when it did finally get one, it was so bad that it was practically unusable for at least two years.
I remember a number of friends and family members giving up on Facebook because its app was so slow, bad, and buggy, even on the newest phones. My wife upgraded to a new phone just because the Facebook app was so awful, and she was so disappointed to find out that the problem wasn't the phone, it was Facebook.
- davnn 4y agoThey were betting on web technologies instead of native, which was quoted as early Mark Zuckerberg's biggest mistake [1]. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest-mistake-with-mobile-was-betting-too-much-on-html5 https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-bigges...
- qwytw 4y agoTechnically Apple made the same mistake but realized and mostly fixed it in half a year or so.
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