Facebook’s secret iPad app exposed

“We just exposed the awesome secret that Facebook’s iPad app is actually already out there, hidden inside of the iPhone app,” MG Siegler reports for TechCrunch.

“I’ve been playing with the app for much of the night, and it seems solid,” Siegler reports. “We’ve just talked to a source who had previous seen the app and says that this is in fact the app Facebook was intending to launch shortly.”

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“After months of downplaying the importance of having an iPad app, and instead playing up HTML5, Facebook has clearly spent some time working on this,” Siegler reports. “At the same time, it is an HTML5-rich experience, with things like the News Feed being populated this way. But other things, like image uploads simply cannot be done without native code at this time.”

Siegler reports, “At the end of the day, would I use this app over the full website, which functions pretty well on the iPad already? Absolutely. I cannot wait for this app to actually launch.”

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