{"id":59659,"date":"2012-09-12T11:17:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T09:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=59659"},"modified":"2012-09-12T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:30:41","slug":"zuckerberg-promises-native-android-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/59659-zuckerberg-promises-native-android-app.html","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg promises native Android app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> CEO, <a title=\"Mark Zuckerberg\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/362086-Mark-Zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> has expressed his company\u2019s push to mobile devices at the <a title=\"TechCrunch\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/364350-TechCrunch\">TechCrunch<\/a> Disrupt 2012 conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve had a bunch of missteps on [mobile],&#8221; Zuckerberg said, specifically referring to its mobile app strategy. &#8220;The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5 instead of native&#8230; We burnt two years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that the company would also drop HTML5 in its Android app as well, and that a native version would be coming soon. &#8220;Native is going to be the approach that we go with for iOS and <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a>,\u201d Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the company\u2019s troublesome IPO debut, Zuckerberg said that the performance of Facebook\u2019s stocks have \u201cobviously been disappointing&#8221;, but believes the focus on mobile will help the company\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/09\/11\/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest-mistake-with-mobile-was-betting-too-much-on-html5\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/58007-facebook-app-updated.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook app updated<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook, Twitter stats for SA teased\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/57957-facebook-twitter-stats-for-sa-teased.html\"><strong>Facebook, Twitter stats for SA teased<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Most popular social networks, IMs on SA mobiles\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/55749-most-popular-social-networks-ims-on-sa-mobiles.html\"><strong>Most popular social networks, IMs on SA mobiles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s future lies in mobile, says Zuckerberg <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":51967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[161,11675,10004,1767,7979],"class_list":["post-59659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-mobile","tag-ipo","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59667,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59659\/revisions\/59667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}