Before this, "mobile Facebook" was a clunky web page you loaded on a Blackberry. It was slow, text-heavy, and ugly. The mission for was simple but terrifying: rebuild the social network from scratch for a device that lived in a pocket.
: Abandoning the "grid" layout of the first experimental app.
: They optimized the code so photos would upload in the background, allowing users to keep scrolling while their 2-megapixel memories traveled to the cloud. The Launch
: It set the blueprint for every social media app we use today—the infinite scroll, the tab bar, and the mobile notification.
Before this, "mobile Facebook" was a clunky web page you loaded on a Blackberry. It was slow, text-heavy, and ugly. The mission for was simple but terrifying: rebuild the social network from scratch for a device that lived in a pocket.
: Abandoning the "grid" layout of the first experimental app.
: They optimized the code so photos would upload in the background, allowing users to keep scrolling while their 2-megapixel memories traveled to the cloud. The Launch
: It set the blueprint for every social media app we use today—the infinite scroll, the tab bar, and the mobile notification.
