On Saturday the 19th, Facebook released an update for their iPhone Application. Although they fixed some bugs and added video (finally, yeah!) they introduced other, much more visible bugs. To be exact, this bug was there all the time, they just didn’t test it with iOS4.

See it? Shadows have the wrong path. I have the same bug with three20 builds. I wonder how this *ever* could go through their quality checking. After all, it’s a one-line fix. And TechCrunch’es argument, that it only applies to the unread-bubbles is wrong, the status-update bar has also the wrong (inverted) shadows.

They don’t mention iOS4 in their fixed section, so you can’t really blame them. But it’s really disappointing. After all, facebook was once the “leader” in app quality and was one of the first apps of the AppStore. But ever since Joe Hewitt walked away from the iOS-Platform, the project kinda stagnated.

There has been huge effort by facebook-employeed Jeff Verkoeyen on three20, the underlying open-sourced library that Joe built around the app. But the app code itself was apparently less touched…

For a company of this size there should be enough resources to do better. (and i’m not even talking about the Android version that really sucks)

It’s also interesting that there is no love for the iPad. Yes, the screen is big enough to support the Website without any “app”, but IMHO the experience would be much better. And people really *are* searching for the iPad-App, which some developer brought much money. (of course he is innocent… for sure…)

Maybe because there are ads on the website, and there aren’t anyone in the mobile apps… What do you think?

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