Facebook Paper
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| Initial release | February 3, 2014 |
| Last release |
1.2.6 / March 11, 2015
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| Development status | Discontinued |
| Operating system | iOS 7 and later |
| Size | 49.7 MB |
| Available in | English |
Facebook Paper was a standalone mobile app created by Facebook, only for iOS, that intends to serve as a phone-based equivalent of a newspaper or magazine. The app was announced by Facebook on January 30, 2014, and released for iOS on February 3, 2014. The iPhone app appeared in the iOS App Store as "Paper – stories from Facebook"; there was no iPad version. Facebook has shut Paper down on July 29, 2016.
Along with announcing the release of Facebook Paper, Facebook also announced Facebook Creative Labs, an intra-company effort to have separate teams working on separate mobile apps that specialize in different facets related to the Facebook experience, rather than trying to make changes to Facebook's main web version, mobile version, or its main iOS and Android apps. Facebook Paper was the first product of Facebook Creative Labs. Later on more apps were launched: Slingshot, Mentions, Rooms, Facebook Groups, Riff, Hello and Moments.
Some of the stated features of Facebook Paper that distinguish it from Facebook's past efforts and its other apps:
Facebook Paper has also experimented with content collaboration with third parties. The first such collaboration was with TED, and was announced on March 17, 2014.
Rachel Meltz, writing for Technology Review, wrote that Facebook Paper was better than Facebook's main app and contrasted it favorably with Facebook's previous efforts at mobile, such as Facebook Home. Dieter Bohn, writing for The Verge, similarly said that with Paper, Facebook "blew its own iPhone app out of the water." Ellis Hamburger reviewed Facebook Paper in a video review as well as an article for The Verge, calling it "the best Facebook app ever." Kyle Vanhemert reviewed the app in Wired Magazine, writing: "The most radical aspect of Paper is that it isn’t predicated entirely on your friends." Josh Constine wrote for TechCrunch: "This ain’t your mama’s Facebook. Paper is almost too modern, or maybe it’s just years ahead of its time."
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