Facebook could be integrated into iPhone OS

on 05/12/2010 17:59 PDT

It seems that the next version of the iPhone OS will feature a Facebook integration, which will be a large step compared to just being able to access Facebook via the current Facebook App. This would probably mean “true” Facebook contact synchronization, similar to what you get on Android and WebOS platforms, with some of us being stoked that there is also a remote possibility of seeing a centralized Facebook Connect for all iPhone apps (today, you have to enter your FB login in each app). This seems like the logical step to take if Apple wants to keep up with the rest of the market in terms of Facebook synchronization, a feature that scores of people do like (mainly for the profile photo?).

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iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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