Why so serious? If Heath Ledger’s Joker from The Dark Knight movie ever found a way to real life, he’d have nothing to say but the phrase above. Microsoft has offered plenty of incentives to app developers — larger revenue splits than both Google and Apple, backed by a billion dollar advertising campaign for its new platform — but a lot of big name developers are yet to release (or at the very least announce) development for Windows 8. One would think that after the release of Windows 8 and wide availability of Microsoft’s Surface tablets, as large an entity as Facebook may already be hard at work on creating a dedicated Windows 8 app. But apparently Facebook are playing hard to catch again. The company said that they are not currently working on a Windows 8 app. AdAge reports that they have not ruled it out completely (who does?), but an official Facebook application nevertheless remains a glaring omission in the Windows Store. A Facebook spokesman said in a statement:
“We are constantly evaluating our strategy for supporting new platforms … as the market and consumer adoption evolves”.Riiiiight. Sure there may not be enough Surface tablets (and a large enough Windows RT user base), but no harm in starting early, eh? Microsoft is reportedly set to move over a million Surface tablets in the first quarter, and this is no way to leave such a large amount of users in the dark. Speaking of early, Microsoft was one of the first investors in Facebook when it invested $240 million for a 1.6% stake in the fledging social network back in 2007. Don’t know about you guys, but I sure would love to cruise Facebook on an official Modern interface application on Windows 8, sooner rather than later. The keyword being official — as a few Facebook aps are already available on the Window Store, and more popping up regularly. At least there still remains hope — and that’s the best thing in this ordeal.]]>
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We do we even need it right now?
I agree. The reason we need an app on phones is because they’re such small screens but on a tablet you can just go to the browser and have Facebook bookmarked (or have the bookmark itself as a tile) and login to the full site. There is absolutely no need for a Facebook app.
Fair point, but Windows RT could use one, me thinks.
Yeah. Windows RT might want one. Else I don’t think it’s required.
Why do you think RT needs one? What will you be able to do in a Facebook app that you can’t by logging in with IE? Or what will be easier? What will make it a better experience?
Stupid of me to mention for RT. Sorry.
like Robert Kegel stated before, with the big screen you can just use the browser for facebook. If you don’t like the desktop styled facebook interface on a touch screen, use the people app.
Windows 8 has amazing social network integration. You can tweet, post on Facebook and read all your friends posts straight from the people app.
I still think it’s silly not to just go ahead and make an app