Facebook's Weak Excuse For Not Building An iPad App

iPad users have been demanding a custom Facebook application for months, however Facebook doesn't appear to feel any pressure to launch one anytime soon for a number of reasons.

iPad users have been demanding a custom Facebook application for months, however Facebook doesn’t appear to feel any pressure to launch one anytime soon for a number of reasons.

Most of the coverage so far has centered around Mark Zuckerberg’s response that the iPad is “not a mobile device” response to a question at Facebook’s mobile press event on Wednesday. After the event we had the chance to speak with Facebook’s CTO, Bret Taylor, who told us that one of the primary reasons that the application hasn’t been launched yet is that there are so many mobile devices and the site is perfectly functional as it exists within Safari on the iPad.

Initially I just accepted Taylor’s response as though it was an accurate analysis, however after letting it soak in, it’s pretty clear that such an excuse is pretty weak.

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