Facebook for BlackBerry Lives On
It appears that the reports of the death of Facebook for BlackBerry have been greatly exaggerated.
It appears that the reports of the death of Facebook for BlackBerry have been greatly exaggerated.
BlackBerry senior marketing manager, developer relations Lou Gazzola clarified in a blog post that while the social network will no longer support its native application for BBOS and BlackBerry 10, an updated, Web-based app has been created.
In a blog post earlier this month, Gazzola wrote:
The app landscape continues to evolve, and in ways that are not always within our control. Recently, Facebook made the decision to discontinue support of its essential APIs (application-programming interfaces) for BlackBerry, and WhatsApp announced that it would end support for BlackBerry 10 and BBOS at the end of 2016.
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