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Mark Zuckerberg made a very bad decision in 2010: He focused Facebook’s engineers on designing an app version of Facebook that could operate on any smartphone, betting that standalone mobile apps would go away. They didn’t. The buggy and slow Facebook app soon became “one of the biggest mistakes we’ve ever made,” Zuckerberg said in a Fortune magazine cover story where he admitted that he was concerned about being among hundreds of Silicon Valley success stories that failed to catch the next wave and died. He and his lieutenants then made sweeping structural and cultural changes — moves that often went against his instincts — including embed mobile engineers in all product teams. In early April, Zuckerberg introduced Facebook Home, a new way to provide its customers with a rich Facebook experience on mobile phones.
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