The developer for the Facebook application on the iPhone has criticised Android and given reasons why the official app is poorer for Google phones.
Although recently getting a decent upgrade, the Facebook for Android application has always been the poorer cousin to the iPhone version, and Joe Hewitt, who helped created the Apple option, says it's down to the tools offered.
"The more I work with Android the more it reminds me of Windows… as in, it's really flexible, agnostic, and developer-friendly, but also really sloppily designed," he said on Twitter.
Like running through a meadow in linen trousers
However, despite the problems, he did give praise to the open-thinking way that Google offered up the Android platform, calling Apple overbearing and hinting that that presence may cause more developers to switch platforms:
"Android tools are horrendous, OS is hideous, but the absence of big brother telling me what to do gives it a slight edge."
While the criticism of Android is probably just, it's important to remember the platform is less that two years old, and is developing at an incredible rate, something which Hewitt agrees with:
"Android fragmentation will hopefully stabilize within two years, and if not, at least people upgrade phones much more often than computers."
Let's just hope Google gets its act together to help create an app development platform to really start getting some quality options into the App Market.
