iPhone App Developer Quits The Facebook App Project

“My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies.” – Joe Hewitt

In the early days of social networking, the dominant player was MySpace. As time went by, MySpace was joined by other players like Facebook and Twitter. MySpace has since lost the top position in the social networking world to Facebook.

In October, traffic numbers for September 2009 for social networking sites came in and Facebook had over 300 million users, pushing MySpace to second place in user numbers. One of the things that Facebook users on the iPhone enjoy and that contributed to the user numbers is the Facebook iPhone app, which is the most popular app on the App Store.

The developer that built the Facebook app for the iPhone has quit development for the iPhone and passed the app off to another engineer at Facebook. TechCrunch reports that Facebook App developer Joe Hewitt is still at Facebook and is simply working on new projects.

Exactly what projects the Hewitt is working on are unknown. As for the reason why the developer stopped developing for the iPhone, the reason is clear. Hewitt said, "My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies." Hewitt says that he is "philosophically opposed" to the existence of a review process and that he is worried Apple's policy might be implemented by other companies seeking to mimic Apple's App store success.

Apple has been under increasing scrutiny for its practices of approving and disapproving apps that are seemingly haphazardly enforced. Apple has found itself in hot water with the FCC after the FCC asked AT&T and Apple to explain why they rejected Google Voice from the App Store.

[via Daily Tech]

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Facebook 3.0 - The Soon to be Released Free iPhone App

Facebook has Submitted its 3.0 version of Facebook for iPhone application to app store. The new Facebook 3.0 is expected to be released by next week. The new version 3.0 has lots of new features. Here are some of the amazing feature of Facebook 3.0 iPhone application.

Features of new Facebook 3.0 iPhone application

* Easier photo tagging facebook3 iphone thumb
* Upload image to any album
* Create photo Album
* Call or text people from the friends page
* Typed message will be restored after a call
* Events
* Notes
* News feeds

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Facebook 2.0 for iPhone lets you make new friends and more

I confess that I am not a big Facebook user. I likes faces well enough, and heaven knows I’m a fan of books, but put them together and I’m just left cold. Of course, I’m probably in the minority in that regard, so the rest of you vocal majority will be glad to hear that the social networking site has upgraded its free iPhone application to version 2.0 (iTunes link).

The new iteration of the iPhone Facebook client adds a lot of features that were lacking in the original app that Facebook debuted when the App Store opened its doors. What’s new in this version? Well, they’ve finally added support for notifications, the full News Feed (and story comments), people search, friend requests, photo tagging and captioning, your entire inbox (with attachments), and more. Plus, the app as a whole is supposedly faster and more stable, especially for those with lots of friends. Or, in other words, not me.

As nice as those updates are, they’re not about to get me poking and writing little messages with everybody else, but I’m sure those of you who are avid about the Facebook will be gratified to hear that you can now duplicate the experience wherever you are.

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