The news caused more curiosity than excitement. The social network is preparing a mobile platform, developed in HTML5, which distributed applications on the terminals of Apple iOS operating system through the Safari browser.
It is claimed that Facebook does not want to let the reign of Apple software and it has about 80 developers working on the Spartan project. It is a platform to distribute these programs in iPad and iPhone but apart from the apple store.
A mobile version of Facebook would host its own app store to be launched without installation in its own social network interface. The system would use Facebook Credits, a virtual currency destined for sale and payments within the same, for example, in games.
Zynga, creator of Farmville, would be one of the companies involved in the project.
War between two great??
Although Facebook also have a version of the Android platform, it is stated that his priority is to Apple terminals.
This step is a clear conflict between the two companies, when Apple recently announced the integration of Twitter into their operating system, which can send a photo to the social network directly from a camera phone without need to download an application.
Just one of the applications infomáticas enviarÃ_aa Facebook photos taken with mobile Apple would be within the Spartan project.
A very desirable market
The market for applications on Apple devices is highly coveted. According to recent data, supplied by the company, 425 000 applications available in App Store, of which 95,000 are from iPad. Apple has paid developers more than 2,500 million.
Who will win? Of course, the most favored will be the millions of users.
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