Facebook throws BlackBerry an HTML bone Facebook isn't abandoning BlackBerry after all, throwing the ailing mobility outfit a bone in the form of a web application. The Social NetworkT recently gave up on native app support for BlackBerry, a fair enough decision given its handset market share is now hidden somewhere in market-watchers' “Other” column. The symbolism …
>The only thing is that you don't get audio notifications of when you get a message
You can of course have Facebook send you an email when someone sends you a Facebook message. Depending upon your email client and provider, you can have such email use a different notification noise to other emails.
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This strikes me of being more of a perception issue than a technical one.
Yep.
There are of course larger issues at play in this whole web Vs app question, such as data in silos and funding of web content in the age of adblockers (and thus the common blurring between editorial and advertising content).
Get a Blackberry and you are less likely to be data-mined by Facebook?
Dark clouds around every silver lining :)
Disclaimer: Yes I do have a Blackberry and I find it very good for making/receiving calls and emails. Oddly enough that and the two/three day battery life is all I want although I have used the GPS/Satnav once in a while
They've escaped the memory and storage hog that is the official Facebook app...
Before I uninstalled it, it was taking up 300+MB of storage (and Messenger likewise)
I'm happy sticking to the likes of Folio which, unsurprisingly, is just a wrapper around m.facebook.com, and manages all the functionality I need for my occasional mobile forays in that direction (as well as Twitter and Google+), in about 20 MB.
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The article implies that facebook had supplied the app and was now taking the app away. In reality they refused to make the app in the first place and the app that we had was made by blackberry themselves. Also they didn't throw BlackBerry a fricken bone they purposely changed their API so that 3rd party apps weren't allowed on BlackBerry. This didn't make things easier as the mobile app blows, uploading a photo is a long drawn out process that doesn't work very fasy... before I could just share to FB it would upload and be done, now you have to select the photo wait for it to the processed then post. Facebook is purposely taking a jab at BlackBerry here so to act like they are throwing them a bone is false. They are just being corporate Bullies
The article implies that facebook had supplied the app and was now taking the app away. In reality they refused to make the app in the first place and the app that we had was made by blackberry themselves. Also they didn't throw BlackBerry a fricken bone they purposely changed their API so that 3rd party apps weren't allowed on BlackBerry. This didn't make things easier as the mobile app blows, uploading a photo is a long drawn out process that doesn't work very fast... before I could just share to FB it would upload and be done, now you have to select the photo wait for it to the processed then post. Facebook is purposely taking a jab at BlackBerry here so to act like they are throwing them a bone is false. They are just being corporate Bullies
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