[Macworld]

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[Biallystock]

No!

THE glaring Mountain Lion/iOS omission is the obvious one.

You still can't run iOS apps on your desktop Mac.

[JDW]

Good article. I cannot help but cast blame on the arrogance of pride of both Zuckerberg and Jobs for this outcome. And it's clear that Mr. Cook wishes to take great care to honor the wishes of Apple's beloved founder, which is why I doubt we will see anything change at all unless Zuckerberg makes a concession. But will a young, inexperienced billionaire full of himself be able to do that? Seems unlikely.

[eyhk]

Facebook is an ad company that sells as much user info as it can get away with. Apple is a product company that protects the user info as much as it can. Although I do think Facebook integration makes much more sense, I don't see them looking eye to eye any time soon. The disdain that Zuckerberg has for Apple and Steve Jobs doesn't help one bit.

[jhwalker]

Agreed - I only use Twitter as a news feed (and don't "tweet" myself), but *all* my friends have and use Facebook.

[TheHeeNow]

Apple realizes that Facebook is nothing more than an open book on your life and your "friends" lives for advertisers, employers, creditors, and governments to pillage.

Kids love it.

You need to grow up.

[Flexmeister]

Dear god I hope not. I know I wouldn't have to use it, but the thought of Apple working together with a company like Facebook...
It just seems like they would be soiling themselves and their products by building it in.

Twitter still seems more like the kind of rebel that Apple likes (or liked) to be seen as. They fight agains government orders to hand over their users' data. For Facebook on the other hand, handing over user data is the business strategy.

If Apple wants to claim that they value their users' privacy, including Facebook would be a terrible move.

This post has been edited by Flexmeister: 18 February 2012 - 03:04 AM

[BarnabyWalters29gv]

I would rather neither of them were there by default, and apple adopted a different system: Third party apps can register as social network clients with OS X. Then, they offer an option that users can choose to have included in share sheets. The client app would handle all uploading, etc. This way, the options in share sheets would actually reflect the social networks/services that users used.

[TomSwift]

I am a Facebook holdout - I do not subscribe, I do not look, I do not share, my life on Facebook.

[SebastianDangerfield]

I know more people who've deleted their Facebook accounts than those who use it. I've never used it myself.

It wasn't very long ago that MySpace was the big deal... I expect Facebook to fade away when people realize they don't need to share every aspect of their lives with the world. I think it's wise of Apple to keep Facebook integration possible, but at arm's length.

[El_Mengi]

Screw Facebook.

[AaronShep]

Facebook? How low can the Mac OS go?

[portenkirchner]

I don't and won't miss Facebook integration. I like the Twitter integration, but I don't need Facebook!
I wonder what data Creepbook would gather on my devices.

[JakeT]

Well, you can take pictures from the Facebook app.