What's frustrating is that Facebook, with what are almost unlimited resources available to them relative to Path and Instagram, hasn't come out with something better. Sure their problem is different and tougher, but with the latest version of their app they are just taking shortcuts. They're trying to put a native wrapper around a web app, which time and time again has been tried and has never once (that I am aware of) come close to matching the UX of the best native apps. Not only that, but their app constantly times out, clicking pictures rarely takes you to the one you want and in general is an exercise in frustration to use. All that would be understandable from a startup, but from a company that snaps up the best developers in the world by the hundreds and that clearly knows the value of mobile, it's mind-boggling.
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What's frustrating is that Facebook, with what are almost unlimited resources available to them relative to Path and Instagram, hasn't come out with something better. Sure their problem is different and tougher, but with the latest version of their app they are just taking shortcuts. They're trying to put a native wrapper around a web app, which time and time again has been tried and has never once (that I am aware of) come close to matching the UX of the best native apps. Not only that, but their app constantly times out, clicking pictures rarely takes you to the one you want and in general is an exercise in frustration to use. All that would be understandable from a startup, but from a company that snaps up the best developers in the world by the hundreds and that clearly knows the value of mobile, it's mind-boggling.