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| This product image provided by Facebook shows the Facebook application as shown on an iPad screen. Facebook is releasing an updated version of its iPhone application on Monday afternoon, one that's also designed to fill out the larger screen of the iPad. Like the previous iPhone version, it's free. (AP Photo) |
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New York.
One of the enduring questions of the technology world: "When will iPad
users get their very own Facebook app?"
That
question was answered Monday as Facebook released an updated version of its
iPhone application, one that's also designed to fill out the iPad's larger
screen.
The lack of
an iPad app for the world's most popular social network has confounded users
ever since Apple launched its tablet computer a year and a half ago.
Third-party developers have made money selling their own apps that show
Facebook pages.
"We're
releasing it now because it's done," Bret Taylor, Facebook's chief
technology officer, said in an interview Monday.
Two weeks
ago, Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen announced on his personal blog that he
was leaving to take a job with Google and that the iPad app he had worked on
was nearly complete in May. It was then "repeatedly delayed through the
summer," he said, without saying why.
Rumors have
swirled that Apple and Facebook were in talks about deepening the integration
of the social network into the system software of the iPhone and iPad. But
Apple's updated system software, announced this summer, will feature
integration with Twitter, another social networking service, rather than Facebook.
That will make it easier to "tweet" from other applications besides
Twitter's.
Like the
previous Facebook app for the iPhone, the new "universal" iPhone and
iPad app is free.
The updated
Facebook app deals with one shortcoming of the old iPhone app, which didn't
play well with apps developed for Facebook's website. They simply weren't
available.
In the new
iPhone and iPad app, some applications developed for Facebook will work.
Associated Press
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