Facebook will force its employees to give up iPhone terminals in favor of the devices Android, Facebook's Chief Product Officer, Chris Cox, making the announcement today.
He claims that he will insist that a substantial number of Facebook employees give up iPhone terminals in favor of Android terminals in order to experience using the social network in a way as close as possible to the one in which people in developing flat markets use it.
Cox claims that most Facebook employees would choose an iPhone if they were left to choose their own smartphones on which to use the Facebook application, but the experience on cheap Android terminals is terrible, and they don't know this because they don't use them.
The initiative was announced after Facebook recently decided that on Tuesdays its employees would use Facebook on very low-speed internet connections, such as 2G, to see how users from developing countries use Facebook.
I am mandating a switch of a whole bunch of my team over to Android, just because people, when left up to their own devices, will often prefer an iPhone. so that they can be reporting bugs and living in the same experience that most Facebook users experience today.
These changes by the Facebook company are intended to force employees to improve the way Facebook works from very cheap Android terminals that have low-speed Internet connections, because in less developed countries there is the greatest growth for Facebook.
How successful these initiatives will be remains to be seen, but surely many employees will be unhappy to switch from iPhone to cheap and slow Android terminals for using the Facebook application during the working day, so we are waiting for their first testimonies.
