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build, or the rivalry that started back then?

: It had to work on 3G speeds, which felt fast then but would feel like dial-up today. Coding in the Dark Facebook 2.0 For Iphone 3G

The developers didn't even have final hardware for most of the cycle. They worked on simulators, guessing how a thumb would feel sliding across glass instead of a trackball. build, or the rivalry that started back then

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It was July 2008, and the air in Palo Alto was electric. At Facebook HQ, the "Mobile Team" wasn't a department; it was three guys in a corner fueled by espresso and the knowledge that the world was about to change. The Go to product viewer dialog for this item.

Before this, "mobile Facebook" was a clunky web page you loaded on a Blackberry. It was slow, text-heavy, and ugly. The mission for was simple but terrifying: rebuild the social network from scratch for a device that lived in a pocket.