Written by MG Siegler

There was a lot of hoopla surrounding the web app Facebook built specifically for Apple’s iPhone when it first came out. Having used it for a solid two weeks now it’s safe to say that it’s a clear winner, and potentially a lot more.

The app is so slick that it transcends the term ‘web app’. The only ‘web app’ thing about it is that you need to load it in Safari on the iPhone, other than that it might as well be its own stand-alone application. The speed at which is runs, even over the EDGE networking, is amazing – this thing has clearly been optimized for a seamless experience. The transitions from screen to screen and the layout of the information on the page actually make me prefer it over the regular Internet version of Facebook. In recent months, (since the launch of Facebook’s platform) Facebook has been becoming more and more bloated as people try to capitalize on the success of the site by creating their own apps for it. Facebook on the iPhone cuts out all of that bloat and brings it back down to the bare necessities of the network: information.More —>