TechCrunch reports that Facebook will be integrated into iOS 6, just like Twitter was integrated into iOS 5.
Apple and Facebook have been in talks
for quite sometime. In fact, according to some reports, Apple had fully
integrated Facebook into iOS 4 back in 2010, and was ready to launch the
mobile-social fusion when API negotiations broke down.
It looked like Apple and Facebook had patched things up as Tim Cook hinted at the possibility of Facebook integration coming to iOS 6 earlier in the week at AllThingsD's D10 conference. When he was asked "What is going on between you and Facebook?" by Mossberg, Tim Cook had this to say:
For us, we want
to provide customers simple and elegant ways to do the things they want
to do. Facebook has hundreds of millions of customers. So, anyone that
has an iPhone or iPad, we want them to have the best experience with
Facebook on those platforms.
So stay tuned.
MG Siegler of TechCrunch reports:
It’s important
to note that Apple being Apple, something could change in the next week
and a half (see again: Facebook/Ping). But as of right now, Facebook is a
go in iOS “Sundance”. One thing still being hammered out according to
our sources is exactly how sharing will work. Sharing is the other big
part of the iOS/Twitter integration, and will be important for
iOS/Facebook integration as well. But Facebook is significantly more
complicated than Twitter in that there are all kinds of permissions for
what you can post where and who can see what. And Open Graph adds
another layer of complexity to all of this.
It is not clear how the Facebook integration will work, but users should
be able to post status updates, share photos and videos from Safari,
Photos, Camera, YouTube, and Maps. It remains to be seen how Apple and
Facebook handle the complexity introduced by privacy controls etc.
via: iphonehacks
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