Joe Hewitt isn't an amateur.

teej · on Sept 11, 2012

No one said that. Everything post-Joe Hewitt and pre 5.0 was amateur.

tptacek · on Sept 11, 2012

They tasked amateurs who didn't know what they were doing into building a hybrid native app container which in turn embedded HTML5 content.

Am I wrong that this basic design is Hewitt's?

teej · on Sept 11, 2012

I can't speak for him, but I do believe that was his vision for the future. However, what he shipped (Facebook 3.0) was native. He was long off the product before the frankenstein HTML5/Native Facebook app shipped.

tptacek · on Sept 11, 2012

Gotcha. Thanks for correcting me.

wsc981 · on Sept 12, 2012

You might have been right about his vision for the future of the Facebook app. I do recall a blog post by Joe in which he mentioned something like that he didn't like developing native apps for iOS anymore due to certain policies by Apple.

A relevant news item here: http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/joe-hewitt-developer-of-fac...