For Facebook Apps. You don't think Facebook would just stand by while FarmVille etc. started being sold in the Chrome App Store and the Safari App Store, would you?
I never said it would be cool, I just think it's where I think we're headed.
Facebook make money from apps.
If apps are sold in browser web stores, that's money Facebook are missing out on.
Therefore Facebook need their own browser.
I would say:
Facebook make money from apps.
If apps are sold in browser web stores, that's money Facebook are missing out on.
Therefore Facebook need their own App Development API
which pushes out to all browsers.
But isn't it much more compelling for Facebook to have a development platform which they control and can make as uniform as possible? Big companies tend to want to control the core technology behind their businesses.
A quick and recent example: you can no longer play FarmVille out of the box on a new Macbook Air.
I never said it would be cool, I just think it's where I think we're headed.