Dive summary:
- Facebook HQ posters encourage employees to “switch today” to Android devices, as the company looks to fix mobile app flaws.
- Facebook employees by default used to get iPhones, but that policy has since changed to avoid promoting a specific phone.
- The switch in emphasis is aimed to help eliminate a wider Facebook employee disconnect with Android phones.
From the article:
"... 'In the early days we gave employees iPhones primarily', a Facebook spokesperson tells me. That decision and the rise of Android has left Facebook scrambling to get employees dogfooding its apps for Google’s OS. Now the company’s headquarters is plastered with these eye-popping posters asking Facebookers to 'switch today', and fix Android flaws with its secret bug reporting tool 'Rage Shake'. ..."
