Facebook employees forced to ditch iPhones to improve Android app Facebook is on a mission to improve its Android app, going so far as to order employees to leave their iPhones at home and use the rival platform to get more familiar with it. Business Insider reports Facebook is taking this approach, citing as sources ex-Facebook employees and people familiar with the goings-on inside the Menlo Park company. Facebook confirmed the report to the Los Angeles Times on Friday, saying in an email that an important part of the company’s products and features testing process involves Facebook employees putting unreleased products and features through “their paces before they launch.” GALLERY: Freshest Facebook features “In order to test our mobile products employees need access to specific devices to test on different platforms (iOS, Android),” a spokesman for Facebook said. “This is obviously different from testing on the Web (where it doesn’t matter what kind computer you have).” The note went on to say that the company will occasionally “remind employees that they can change from iPhone to Android or Android to iPhone.” News of this Facebook strategy came Thursday after the company updated its iPhone and iPad app, which was known for being slow and crashing often. The Android app also received an update, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the update wasn’t as big as the one iOS received. “But still a step forward,” Zuckerberg said on Facebook. No word on when an improved …
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MarkRipleyMusic says:
November 28, 2012 at 6:45 pm (UTC 0)
Bro i have no Facebook or Android Phone ah
TheyCallMeSkinnyBOI says:
November 28, 2012 at 7:42 pm (UTC 0)
I mostly use the app
AdenCrockerTV says:
November 28, 2012 at 8:39 pm (UTC 0)
I use facebook on my iphone if that’s close
TheLegendOfLiv says:
November 28, 2012 at 8:41 pm (UTC 0)
I see instagram and facebook are looking very similar now!
Domingo0022IWAY says:
November 28, 2012 at 9:00 pm (UTC 0)
Good thing I don’t work there lol
RobyCtv says:
November 28, 2012 at 9:33 pm (UTC 0)
thanks Stefan
1BlazinEagle1 says:
November 28, 2012 at 10:02 pm (UTC 0)
well said roby
RobyCtv says:
November 28, 2012 at 10:23 pm (UTC 0)
thanks Nick!
RobyCtv says:
November 28, 2012 at 10:41 pm (UTC 0)
yeah :O
RobyCtv says:
November 28, 2012 at 10:59 pm (UTC 0)
nickums69 says:
November 28, 2012 at 11:33 pm (UTC 0)
I like the “Intro”
~Nick~
Stratboy999 says:
November 29, 2012 at 12:31 am (UTC 0)
With a bit of luck the next development for facebook will be its total and utter collapse and descent into forgotten history…..
xRandomShadowManx says:
November 29, 2012 at 1:25 am (UTC 0)
SCORE.