Facebook Suspected to Make a Team for Designing Its Desktop Software App, Overlooking the Lack of iPad App

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Apparently, Facebook is looking to employ more engineers in order to create a new desktop software team. TechCrunch has highlight that a posting for jobs pages of Facebook, the world’s largest social networking website, titled "Software Engineer, Desktop Software." This job vacancy was cited at Facebook’s official website, enlisting the job post to be available in the recently-opened Seattle office. Further the elaborative detailed of the job states: "The desktop software team is a new team at Facebook based out of Seattle, WA. We will be working on new products that we expect to deliver to millions of users' computers to help make their entire computing experience more social. Facebook is seeking experienced software engineers in Seattle to join this team."

It was also listed that further responsibilities expected by the job applicants are to "create desktop applications for Mac and/or Windows, work closely with our product and design teams to define feature specifications, work closely with our Platform team to build server-side APIs and interfaces in support of these applications, [and] conduct design and code reviews."

It is very interesting to see that Facebook is attempting to design a special app team for the desktop system before it has even attempted to create an app for Apple’s latest and equally popular tablet, iPad. This loophole in the services of Facebook, of not having an app for Apple’s iPad, is even more attention-seeking when you realize that Facebook's iPhone app is the all time most downloaded application of Apple’s App Store. Especially if you consider the versatility and range of Apple’s App Store, it is a huge achievement of Facebook.

This job vacancy at Facebook Inc. doesn’t directly indicate that Facebook has begun, or will begin, working on its desktop app. In fact TechCrunch explores the possibility of this happening, stating that it "doesn't seem to make a lot of sense given their stated (over and over again) commitment to HTML5 and that being the key driver for why they don't have an iPad app."

Just last year, the co-founder and C.E.O. of Facebook Inc., Mark Zuckerberg, was questioned regarding the lack of an official app for iPad, he replied that "iPad's not mobile." He stated: "I don't mean to be rude to Apple. iPad just isn't mobile in the same way [an iPhone] is." 

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