Facebook App for windows mobile

hanjamin300 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-29-2010, 10:12 AM

why is our facebook application so foolishly designed as compared to the iPhone and Android devices?

**nrfitchett4** · #2 (**permalink**) 04-29-2010, 10:37 AM

what is so bad about our facebook???

Q_Q · #3 (**permalink**) 04-29-2010, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by nrfitchett4

what is so bad about our facebook???

Agreed, what's wrong with it?
I find it pretty useful.

Didn't know iPhone has a built in Facebook app???

**WhiteBlazer01** · #4 (**permalink**) 04-29-2010, 10:37 AM

Also, Blackberry has a really awesome Facebook app. Seem WM is very neglected.

supdawg · #5 (**permalink**) 05-02-2010, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by WhiteBlazer01

Seem WM is very neglected.

Yes, this is why people are leaving it in droves. Since WM7 looks like a Iphone clone, I'll pass.

MS screwed up when they thought that their way of wrong and Iphones was right. Android proves people can have some control over their devices yet, they still are plenty functional.

**nrfitchett4** · #6 (**permalink**) 05-03-2010, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by supdawg

Yes, this is why people are leaving it in droves. Since WM7 looks like a Iphone clone, I'll pass.

MS screwed up when they thought that their way of wrong and Iphones was right. Android proves people can have some control over their devices yet, they still are plenty functional.

wait a minute, this whole thread is devoted to how much worse microsoft apps are compared to apple and android, and then you complain about microsoft making their OS more restrictive so they can have higher quality apps instead of anyone being able to make them.

you can't have your cake and eat it too....

**nrfitchett4** · #7 (**permalink**) 04-29-2010, 10:57 AM

i can post on walls, send mail, look at pics, respond to notifications, search for friends...
what else is there to do on facebook???

sl8763 · #8 (**permalink**) 04-29-2010, 11:40 AM

I've noticed with the stock FB app that if I look at someone's wall, and they've made a post that got more than one comment...I can only see the last comment.

Anyone else notice this?

**mlin** · #9 (**permalink**) 04-29-2010, 11:47 AM

I find the MS FB app useful. I think iPhone has the only FB app made by FB, the rest are made by RIM, Androind, MS, or third party developers. The one thing I don't like about the MS FB app is that everytime I install it, my status changes to "...just installed Facebook for Windows Mobile." It's annoying and I wish I could change that (or maybe I can and I just don't know how).

haus · #10 (**permalink**) 04-29-2010, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by mlin

The one thing I don't like about the MS FB app is that everytime I install it, my status changes to "...just installed Facebook for Windows Mobile." It's annoying and I wish I could change that (or maybe I can and I just don't know how).

You can delete that status update on your wall, but as with many things on FB you probably can't do it from the WM version. On a PC, just mouse over that status update, mouse to the right and the word "Remove" will show up. Click "remove" and that item will be removed. I've done this a number of times.

There are a number of limitations to the WM FB app; I can't describe them all but I agree they are frustrating.

I think the core of this is that WM is a less viable platform for development than iPhone, Android and BB to begin with (in terms of making money and earning market share); couple that with Microsoft's focus on Windows 7 Phone and you have a "why should we care" attitude toward anything that is available right now. I've spoken to developers who are working on apps for the 3 major platforms here in the States and when I mention Windows Mobile they just laugh. Doesn't make it right, but if you haven't invested heavily in a WM user base in the past (PocketShield, SPB, etc.) why bother now.