Bosworth: Facebook failed early in mobile by non-natively porting web code
Andrew Bosworth · What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech · Apr 24, 2025 · at 13:33
Andrew Bosworth is CTO at Meta. He reflects on Facebook's early mobile strategy mistakes when discussing native design for spatial computing hardware with David George.
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“A lot of people failed early in mobile, including us by just taking our web stuff and putting on the mobile phone and being like, oh, like, the mobile phone, it's just like, we'll just put the web there. But because it wasn't native to what the phone was, and I mean, everything from interaction design to the actual design to the layout to how it felt, like, because we weren't doing phone native things, We were failing with one of the most popular products in the history of the web.”
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