Facebook for iPad Still Not Released, Third Parties Try But Get In Trouble
Many people expected to see an official Facebook app launch along with the iPad this past weekend, but it didn’t. Instead, new owners of the tablet device looked in the App Store for a Facebook and found an unofficial app called Facebook Ultimate, for $2.99.
It got as high as number 7 on Apple’s paid iPad apps list over the weekend. But its name, if not other aspects of it, resulted in trouble with Facebook. “The Ultimate Facebook App was a clear violation of Facebook Platform policies around trademark infringement and affiliation, and has since been removed from the App Store by Apple,” Facebook said
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