Last night Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO Facebook, he presented Facebook Home on the stage of a conference, he answered many questions and spoke about the relationship between Facebook and Apple. He was of course asked if Facebook Home will ever reach iOS, and his answer did not shock anyone, Facebook not being able to control what Apple does. Zuckerberg claims that Facebook collaborates with Apple for the implementation of new functions related to the social network, probably the implementation of Facebook Home was also discussed, but considering that iOS is a closed system, only Apple decides what goes in or out of it.
We have a pretty good partnership with Apple, but they want to own the whole experience themselves. There aren't a lot of bridges between us and Google, but we are aligned with their open philosophy. So do you think in, say, two years you will have this on the iPhone? "That's above my pay grade to be able to answer that." Look, I would love for that answer to be yes. Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community. We have a billion people using our services now, and we want to get to 3 or 5 billion one day. We're going to do that by building the best experience across all devices. Android is growing quickly, and we're excited that the platform is open and that it allows us to build these great experiences.
Facebook doesn't have such a great relationship with Google, but modifying Android is much easier, and Facebook prefers to offer Home for tens or hundreds of millions of users, preferring not to use iOS. In Android, Facebook Home represents a substantial change in the experience of using mobile terminals, in iOS this would be impossible, Apple having to modify the Springboard and offer Facebook the foreground in its iOS, which those from Cupertino will never do it.
