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Mark Zuckerberg, speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt
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This is so much better it’s unreal.
Facebook needed to do this a year ago. Their mobile app is good again, my disdain for them has waned. I’m even forgiving their more in your face advertising, because it’s made my News Feed more relevant and engaging again.
Surprise, surprise, my change in attitude has coincided with them drawing more attention to the areas in which Facebook truly hits it out of the park when compared to other social networks: photo sharing, interesting article sharing and events.
Now if they could just kill of those bloody “Social” Readers. Those things are worse than… a lot of bad, bad things. They are Twitter’s dick bar.
Speaking of Twitter and dicks…
Looking at Marco’s link just reminded me of how great the native Twitter app used to be. And then I’m reminded of what they’re doing to the hand that fed them. I haven’t really worked out a way to group together my thoughts on the subject yet, but safe to say they aren’t good ones. Ben Brooks puts it best until I can come up with something:
We like to make analogies to Apple in tech blogging circles, so here goes: this is the moment in Twitter’s life where they kicked Steve Jobs out of the company and told Sculley to run it.
I disagree with this entirely. I personally loathed being booted out of Safari (and other apps) and into the YouTube app. I hate the fact that it used up an icon space on my Springboard. I always felt Google’s mobile HTML5 offering was far, far better than the app.
This is a huge win for consumers, in my opinion: they will get a better, more up to date YouTube app that is consistent with YouTube on desktop and less obstructive to their browsing. Consumers will also benefit from a regularly updated YouTube app (finally!), just like they’ll benefit from a regularly updated standalone Google Maps app on iOS if they don’t want to use Apple Maps.
This is also a win (as many have pointed out) for Google, who can now put their ads into YouTube on iOS.
…and finally it’s a win for Apple, who can continue to move away from Google.
Good for everyone. Yippee. I for one, am very happy.
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