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The iPad is not mobile according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Speaking at a mobile event in Facebook’s Palo Alto Headquarters today, Zuckerberg fielded a question from an unfortunate Mashable Apple fanboy about when the social networking firm would come out with an iPad app, only to be told “The iPad is not mobile…next question.”
“oooooooohhh” came the response from the audience, to which Zuckerberg repeated “it’s not mobile. It’s a computer.”
“I think Apple would disagree with you,” retorted Mashable fanboy inquisitor un-extraordinaire.
“Oh, sorry,” came Zuckerberg’s snarky reply, causing the audience to giggle.
Obviously feeling the need to rescue the situation from becoming ugly, the somewhat more diplomatic VP of mobile at Facebook, Erick Tseng, took the mic and explained that while Facebook could be used perfectly normally from the iPad, the bigger concern for Facebook was dealing with the tablet genre altogether.
“It’s about a new class of devices, something with a 10-inch display and a tablet form factor. So there’s a bigger question at hand: how do we tap into this new category?,” he asked, somewhat rhetorically.
“How do we scale for a tablet form factor, in a way that doesn’t lock us into one platform?” he continued, still without answering his own questions.
Zuckerberg, like a child on a “time-out” who has had time to contemplate his actions and feel suitably sorry for them, then decided to make a quick apology to Apple.
“I didn’t mean to be rude towards Apple,” he said looking suitably sorry. “We all love Apple products here, and we want to work with them and all that. I just want to keep the event focused on what we’re doing today. The iPad is not a mobile platform in the same way a phone is,” he concluded.
You can watch the videos of both the attack and apology below:
