Facebook VP Of Corporate Development Vaughn Smith Discusses Facebook’s 180 On Mobile

Facebook’s focus on mobile ramped up significantly at the start of 2012, when the social network basically stopped listening to product reviews where mobile was not front and center, Vice President of Corporate Development Vaughn Smith said Friday at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in San Jose, Calif.

Facebook’s focus on mobile ramped up significantly at the start of 2012, when the social network basically stopped listening to product reviews where mobile was not front and center, Vice President of Corporate Development Vaughn Smith said Friday at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in San Jose, Calif.

As reported by TechCrunch, here are the remarks from Smith:

Since the start of this year, if you turned up at a product review and showed anything other than mobile at the start or for the bulk of the presentation, you’d be asked to go back and do it again.

As recently as last year, 80 percent of a product review would talk about the desktop website.

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