Doug Purdy talks mobile at Facebook.
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Facebook has been beaten up hard for its lousy mobile apps, but today the company wants the public to know that it thinks things are picking up.
The social network had a press event at its headquarters today, where it touted its improved ratings in the Apple app store following an upgrade of its iOS app.
"This is just the start for us," said Mick Johnson, Facebook's product manager for mobile. "We can now see a clear path forward to do all the things that we want to do."
The shift to mobile has been a vexing problem for Facebook with more users moving to mobile devices. The company's early mobile apps hadn't received high ratings, and this is something the company said it is working to change. The company wants to make it clear that it is well aware of the challenge ahead.
"What we are doing over time is making everyone a mobile engineer, and now every team is almost entirely mobile," Peter Deng, a product manager who works on messenger, said at today's event. Facebook is now running regular mobile and iOS training sessions, and aims to have 200 to 300 engineers trained up by the end of the year.
The company's executives also emphasized Facebook's continued dedication to HTML5 despite comments made by CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this week.
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