Agreed - the idea that facebook was "outdated desktop based technology" is laughable.
It was one of the first apps most people installed - and they actually made it run on an INSANE number of platforms. Wasn't there versions of facebook for things like symbians and nokias and low bandwidth devices in developing countries?
Instagram had a pretty small team when facebook bought them, and facebook was active on mobile before that.
This complaint is such trash - I can't believe they can't find better arguments to make.
Edited: It looks like in 2010 or so facebook had something like 150 million mobile users (using this "outdated desktop technology"). I don't doubt it wasn't perhaps best of breed, but there were lots of mediocre approaches back then. Did the FTC even have an app? Did the fortune 500 all have amazing apps?
Interesting! I didn't actually know that. I just remember being in a developing country and like Nokia's had facebook or messenger or something? Skype and Facebook were showing up a lot of places way back. I remember the office I was in ran everything on skype - period. Months with no phone calls really, but you could somehow get on facebook. Symbian / Nokia I'm trying to remember how this worked back then. I'm sure they dropped them, and I may be confusing who was on these crap devices but I vaguely remember thinking damn, facebook and snake are like the advanced apps on phones.
It was one of the first apps most people installed - and they actually made it run on an INSANE number of platforms. Wasn't there versions of facebook for things like symbians and nokias and low bandwidth devices in developing countries?
Instagram had a pretty small team when facebook bought them, and facebook was active on mobile before that.
This complaint is such trash - I can't believe they can't find better arguments to make.
Edited: It looks like in 2010 or so facebook had something like 150 million mobile users (using this "outdated desktop technology"). I don't doubt it wasn't perhaps best of breed, but there were lots of mediocre approaches back then. Did the FTC even have an app? Did the fortune 500 all have amazing apps?