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Facebook to launch the official iPad app October 4th?

By on September 26, 2011 at 6:15pm in Mobile News


iPad owners who are into Facebook have been patiently waiting for them to release the official Facebook for iPad app. It’s been leaked online through hidden code within the iPhone app, but still nothing has been available to the masses. Apparently the app has been completed for over 5 months now. Lead Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen, who’s based in Toronto, recently departed the company out of frustration and bolted towards Google’s mobile division.

Verkoeyen stated on his blog that “The app still hasn’t been released, though it was infamously leaked via Techcrunch. It was feature-complete in May and for reasons I won’t go into details on the app was repeatedly delayed throughout the summer. Over the past 8 months I dedicated a significant amount of time toward building this app, sometimes putting in over 80 hours of work in a given week in the hopes of meeting the “perpetually moving two-weeks-away launch date” every software developer fears. After the app reached feature completion in May and I was told that it was going to be delayed yet again, I stopped working on the project entirely.”

The reason for the delay could have been a deeper partnership with Apple. According to a post on Mashable, Facebook is going to be launching their iPad app, along with an updated iPhone app and a new HTML 5 version of the Facebook mobile site at the upcoming unconfirmed October 4th iPhone 5 media event.

Source: Mashable
Via: TNW

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11 comments for “Facebook to launch the official iPad app October 4th?”

  1. Looks like the Tumblr login

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    Posted by Anonymous | September 26, 2011, 6:24 pm
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  2. OMG, another apple update Im so excited..no, wait, sorry cancel that…I changed my mind…GO ANDROID

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    Posted by Tbone | September 26, 2011, 6:32 pm
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  3. Reminds me of when Twitter only had third-party apps for iPhone.

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    Posted by Alex Perrier | September 26, 2011, 6:40 pm
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  4. @Tbone, wishing you’d be able to update your android device as much, don’t you? ;)

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    Posted by Alex | September 26, 2011, 6:45 pm
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  5. Good to see you Alex. I haven’t seen any of your posts in a while!

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    Posted by Harold The Barber | September 26, 2011, 6:46 pm
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  6. A honeycomb optimized app would be cool. Though I’m not holding my breath considering how delayed this one is.

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    Posted by MXM4K | September 26, 2011, 9:23 pm
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    • The Honeycomb Facebook app has been available since August.

      I was pretty surprised at this news. I thought there already was a Facebook app for iPads. I was even more surprised that the Facebook app for Honeycomb tablets was available already while there isn’t one for iPads yet. I guess there is fragmentation amongst iOS devices as well.

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      Posted by Stuntman | September 26, 2011, 10:52 pm

  7. About time! Even playbook has an official app.

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    Posted by Justin | September 26, 2011, 11:23 pm
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  8. ifail.

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    Posted by Erf | September 27, 2011, 7:51 pm
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