We’ve heard from a source that sometime late last night, Facebook was told that they would not be a part of Apple’s event today. This is nothing new. Companies are told to prepare to go on stage at these events all the time only to get pulled at the last second. It’s just a bit odd that a company as large as Facebook was passed over.
via techcrunch.com
I find this extremely hard to believe. Why would Apple, at an event called “Let’s talk iPhone” want to share the stage with Facebook, arguably a future serious competitor, to announce the release of a Facebook iPad app, which frankly, is not only long overdue, but also does nothing to further Apple’s clear message of new iPhone and Siri today?
If anything, I’d think Apple would want to shove this one under the rug and hope no one noticed that the iPad app wasn’t already there a year ago.
Let Facebook make its own announcement for its own iPad app. I can’t see why Apple would have even considered making this a part of today’s event, let alone cancel it at the last minute. Sounds like a source trying to cover his tracks to me.
Sometimes rumors are just wrong. Like 90% of the other rumors about today.
