All the major mobile industry players are cashing in on the social networking scene. With a plethora of users all over the globe, it is no wonder that it is such a viable industry capable of raking in a lot of profit from everyone who is smart enough to participate in the market. Apple is, of course, no dummy and it seems that they are going to make the iPhone OS 4 Facebook friendly at a system level.
While the official announcement is not out yet, a lot of people speculate that it will be on June 7. Anything can happen but it is looking quite good for the social networking fans. The iPhone maker could just include some support for Facebook Connect so that the app developers could easily integrate Facebook functionality. This is likely to happen since there were talks of Facebook Connect being brought to iTunes.
If these come into fruition, you can expect your contacts to sync seamlessly to your mobile phone without having to look for and use a third party app. Messaging may also be in the iPhone OS 4’s future, making text messaging and email charges close to unneeded.
If these do get implemented, it benefits all parties involved. Facebook will retain and increase its traffic since almost ten percent of their current users are actively using Facebook for the iPhone. Also, Apple will have an edge over the competition with a promising update to the iPhone OS that also carries a much needed feature and users will be able to take advantage of a fresh OS which helps them get their social networking fix.
Apple already has features that can naturally be ported into iPhone OS 4 Facebook support such as their iPhoto system which allows photo syncing with Facebook so this looks to be in the bag already.
