I'd REALLY like to know what possessed Apple to go with Twitter and not Facebook. When I want to share a picture, I want to share it through Facebook, NOT Twitter.
Weirdly, when I want to share a photo, I want to share it through Twitter and not Facebook. I realize I'm in the minority, but it's a growing minority, and was probably a much better deal to negotiate.
I'm confused as to why you even have to negotiate a deal. My Android phone has options for both Facebook and Twitter when you 'share' a photo- any app can plug into the API.
Looking back to Apple's supposed failed attempt to partner with Facebook with their Ping service, this doesn't surprise me.
It's probably something political, or maybe even technical (such as handling permissions?). Either way, as a user I completely agree that heavy Facebook integration would be more compelling.
They could have just allowed any app to integrate with the OS. That's why I loved my BlackBerry, any app could add a handler to the OS's context menu for a given item.
They could similarly expose intents like Android does as well.
i'd say that is more Facebook than Apple, fb refused ping. and fb are part of the Microsoft keiretsu