Saturday, August 4, 2012

VP Mike Schroepfer: 7,000 Different Types Of Mobile Devices Access Facebook Every Day

facebook-5Why is mobile such a challenge for Facebook? Well, for starters, 7000 different device types are used to access Facebook each day. At today's Facebook Ecosystem Conference, VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer said that part of the difficulty Facebook faces in reaching mobile users is just that there are so many different SKUs. As a result, Facebook can't re-build mobile apps and iterate on the experience in the same way it does for the web. Now that Facebook is on so many platforms, most of its focus is on refining the apps and making them better. Facebook generally pushes updates to its platform on the web every day or even twice a day, but that's not something that the company can do for mobile. So the company is working on a new release schedule specifically for its mobile apps. Android apps are shipped every four to six weeks. Facebook for iOS isn't quite on that type of schedule, yet.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/oZ5QynLkAZw/

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