Facebooks iPhone App Is Finally Going to Get Faster

Facebook is giving its iPhone a much-needed speed update.

This should come as no surprise, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors during the IPO roadshow that mobile apps are the company's first priority. This emphasis could be because Facebook earns 2.5 times as much from mobile advertisers, in addition to the rise in mobile users across the world.

Two anonymous Facebook engineers revealed plans to speed up the app to the New York Times, explaining the iOS application is undergoing a complete overhaul to be optimized for speed and will be released later in the summer.

According to the pair of engineers, the new app is being built primarily using iOS coding language Objective-C,…
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