Project Spartan: Facebook Aims To Bypass App Store

Facebook's Project Spartan aims to bypass Apple's App Store with a HTML5-based, mobile platform that will work over mobile Safari, targeting the iPhone and iPad.

Dodging the Apple App Store seems to be in fashion these days, as Financial Times illustrated earlier this month with its launch of a web-based app for the iPhone and iPad, but, with no disrespect to FT, it’s bigger news when Facebook climbs aboard the train.

TechCrunch broke the news about Project Spartan, which it described as the social network’s initiative to launch a new, HTML5-based, mobile platform that will work over mobile Safari, targeting the iPhone and iPad while bypassing the App Store.

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