14 DAY TRIAL // Facebook is indeed launching an iPad-native application, but not how you’d expect, according to people who are allegedly privy of the company's plans.
Instead of simply submitting the binary to Apple for approval, the social network is reportedly teaming up with the Cupertino technology mammoth to announce the app, and an all-new new service, during the iPhone 5 launch event.
The main reason is Facebook’s necessity to reach mobile platforms at large, and Apple’s need to have a social platform, one way or the other.
According to Mashable’s sources, the brainchild of this renewed friendship will be “the launch of Facebook for iPad at Apple's iPhone 5 media event.”
If this is true, then Facebook engineer Jeff Verkoeyen may have resigned not knowing what big plans awaited his glorious iPad-native application (more on this here).
That’s not all though. As some of you may have already heard, Facebook is rumored to be working on a project to bring its platform to mobile devices.
Dubbed by the media “Project Spartan”, the platform is said to be designed with the developer community in mind.
Specifically, devs would be able to bring their Facebook apps to mobile devices via this HTML5 platform called ‘Spartan’.
The aforementioned sources said both Apple and Facebook are actually partners in crime here, with a common goal of beating Google.
All this being said, reports coming from high-profile sources have pinpointed the iPhone 5 event date on October 4.
The show is said to be hosted at the Town Hall Auditorium on Apple’s Cupertino campus. Tim Cook will reportedly head the ceremonious iPhone 5 introduction, aided by fellow executives Scott Forstall, Phil Schiller, and perhaps others.