“Developers can’t wait for iOS 6 and Facebook to show up on Apple’s mobile devices,” Roger Cheng reports for CNET.
“That’s according to Matt Gillis, who spent much of last week chatting with developers at Apple’s WWDC event,” Cheng reports. “As the head of global monetization for mobile advertising company Millennial Media, he’s tapped into the developer community.”
Cheng reports, “The key verdict from WWDC: a lot of excitement over the closer integration between Apple and Facebook. Developers are licking their chops waiting to tie their apps into Facebook, allowing the apps to show up in news feeds and eventually solving the problem of getting them in front of new users.”
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I have no problem with the Facebook integration, but I hope that developers remember that there are millions of us like myself that refused to be on Facebook. If they make it so their apps won’t work without Facebook then I can’t use their apps!
/bump
can’t = won’t
Spotify – we’re looking at you.
Exactly. I have Facebook only to keep up with family that is scattered all over the US.
I can’t stand updates that are nothing but game info.
I never, ever, get nothing but game updates; in fact, I never get any at all. I don’t know what you’re doing wrong. I get lots of updates from friends, bands and artists which I very much look forward to getting, especially when they tip me off to ticket sales in advance of the general public sales, like the Tori Amos update I received a short while ago.
wtf…? You work for Facebook or something?
Agree with all the above.
Any time a site insists I use Facebook to log in, I avoid that site. It’s puerile to think that Facebook is any kind of validation service.
I refuse to login via Facebook to other’s sites. Like Think I use FB as a family connection tool. I don’t want a company with no sense of the value of my privacy tracking every interest of mine to increase their revenue.
the word is about integrating FB into OS X but not depending on it.
i was just trying to post a response on nytimes.com re: an article about pta’s assuming more of the cost of education and they required me to have a Facebook account. given the (lack of) security associated with Facebook (in a number of dimensions) i refuse to join it. so now i am locked out of posting comments to a website that i have to subscribe to, to get into in the first place. the gradual requirement to have a Facebook account is going to alienate people, people that for personal or business reasons pay attention to security issues, and it is going to divide the internet community. and despite the declared reasons, such as on the nytimes web site, that this will ensure “a high quality of conversation”, i don’t think this is happening at all. (a lot of) people that join Facebook don’t seem to have any reluctance whatsoever to say whatever pops into their head without regard to immediate impact or later consequences. i can barely stand to have to log into wordpress in order to post comments here.
I’m an iOS developer and I couldn’t give two sh*ts about Facebook integration. Facebook only cheapens Apple’s brand. Steve never would have let this happen!
Awww, boo hoo. Sucks to be you.
Take your pills… you will feel better in no time. Cheers!
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Looking forward to the new comments ability for photo stream in iOS 6. Anything that can chip away at Facebook is good for everyone.
Sharing photos is great, but Facebook is the last place I’d want to do it.
Seeing as how I want people to see the photos I put online, and most of those people are on Fb, rather than Flickr, Instagram or Bliphoto, Fb is the first place place I put mine.
But then, I know where my friends are.
My Problem will probably be the lack of options to turn off all Facebook features. You can’t turn off the twitter stuff… It’s just slowing down my iOS
Will someone please make a decent Facebook app that doesn’t suck as bad as the official one? When chatting it would be nice not to have to scroll to china to comment.