Facebook app for iPad due next week?

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Friendly for Facebook is a free, third-party app for the iPad. But many users of the social networking site are eager to have an app directly from Facebook itself.

By Suzanne Choney

Along with a new iPhone likely to be unveiled next Tuesday, Apple may also introduce the Facebook for iPad app, something users of the tablet have long been hankering for.

"In addition to the iPad app, Facebook is also expected to release a revamped version of its iPhone app, and may unveil an HTML5-based mobile app marketplace," said Mashable.

While iPad users can access Facebook via the Safari Web browser on the tablet, an app geared to viewing photos and videos on the social networking site, as well as making the most out of Facebook's new features, including Timeline, might make it one of the most popular apps ever for the iPad.

There is a third-party app, Friendly for Facebook, which is free, and Friendly Plus for Facebook (99 cents), which offers a decluttered Facebook experience for the iPad.

Facebook has yet to confirm it's got an iPad app in the works, but a version was leaked some months ago to TechCrunch, and separately, a Facebook engineer working on the app recently quit, partly out of frustration in the delay of getting the app out.

Mashable quoted "two sources familiar with the situation," who said that the Facebook iPad app delay has been in part, a "combination of timing and a strained relationship with Apple. It?s no secret that the two companies have been at odds over various issues during the past two years."

Facebook's strained relationship with Apple??is "warming up, however, thanks to the shared goal of beating Google ? and the simple fact that Facebook and Apple may need each other," Mashable said. Maybe they won't be best pals, but maybe it will be enough to "friend" each other, at least in this case.

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Source: http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/27/7994920-facebook-app-for-ipad-due-next-week

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