In the shadow of the technology world chatting about Google+ today, Facebook has made somewhat of an announcement of its own. More appropriately, it has made an announcement of an announcement, according to Reuters.
Chief Executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in a visit to Facebook’s Seattle office on Wednesday that the company planned to “launch something awesome” next week.
Speculation runs high that Facebook will finally release its iPad-specific application, filling a hole which has been desperately wanted by its mobile-loving users. The speculation is driven even further after we’ve read that whatever product is released, it has been built by Facebook’s 40-person Seattle team.
Why the speculation from Seattle? We’ve come to know that this same team is the one that built Facebook’s unified mobile site, so a mobile app makes perfect sense.
Facebook has had a long-time standoff with the iPad (and with Apple in general) since CEO Zuck labeled the iPad as “not a mobile device” during a Facebook event in 2010. However, the company has to eventually give in to the demands of its users, so it’s high time that we see a dedicated app for the social networking giant.
Of course, there are other options for what it could be, to. We’ve long known that Facebook has had the capacity to integrate Skype and the rumors of that integration have heated up over the past few months. Lacking a true voice and video chat product of its own, other startups have aimed for a Facebook acquisition but this door has remained wide open for now.
Whatever turns out, we’ll bring you the news as soon as it happens. Or of course before, if our ever-so-trusty sources come through with any information.
Possibilities:- iPad app- Integration with music services- Contact drag/drop into certain shapes to add them to lists….. ;)
@Farid El Nasire Won’t be music. I can’t see Facebook rolling out EU-only products with its critical mass being in the US. Since we know that Facebook and Spotify are in talks, but Spotify isn’t in the US yet.
@Brad McCarty @Farid El Nasire Spotify is soon? Three of the four major labels in US already signed. I’d keep it open to possibility.
Actually Facebook has no intentions of ever creating an iPad app.
The announcement is more likely to be a mobile site designedin html5 made specifically for mobile safari.
You can think of it as kind of an attack on the apple app store.
They plan to open their own marketplace for web apps paid for by Facebook credits.