Hmmm what is that old saying, a good workman does not blame his tools! Mobiles today have more processing power than the old C64, Amiga and atari ST, STe, TT.

Hmmm what is that old saying, a good workman does not blame his tools! Mobiles today have more processing power than the old C64, Amiga and atari ST, STe, TT. probably combined. If they are having issues with memory and that appears to be the crux then they need to redesign how there doing things. Just becasue you can chuck a blob of content at a desktop webbrowser and chew memory like it is going out of fasion does not mean you can be as lazy with your design when it comes to thinner clients like mobiles. The best optimisations come from a good design and whilst there desktop model of doing things may work for them it does not mean the same approach can be taken with thinner clients that will notice you chucking a ton of content initialy. The other thing is that all that Facebook are trying to do has been done in one form or another by others and to read about facebook in effect complaining how a entire platform is broken is not only wrong but concerning as there are people who will take what facebook say as gospil and it is far from it that this could end up being distorted if the tabloid news level types get hold of it. No platform is perfect and there will always be area's you want to change but in this case it is facebook's approach that needs to change. I also have to question if it is facebook beyond some forum email post as it is not on there main site (not that I'd ever know). Out of interest G+ works fine on my low memory android device, though the previous version was better IMHO for my device as the new version does cater for larger screens nd tablet factors more so I feel, but it still works fine. I'll also confess to not ever touching a facebook application so when I read this I do wonder how bad they are and wonder how they compare in usage performance wise and would love to see a article comparing network usage and phone resource usage for typical actions like uploading a picture for a post or replying to a post with a picture in it, those type of things.