Facebook’s iPhone Dev Quits Project Due To Apple’s Approval Process

Joe Hewitt, the man at Facebook behind the wildly popular Facebook app for iPhone [App Store] has just announced that he’s left the project. “Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I’m onto a new project,” said Hewitt earlier today on Twitter. Over the life of the Facebook app, Joe’s essentially been the only dev working on the app, making this an extremely significant move. He’s moved on to another project a Facebook, although we haven’t heard who Facebook plans to put in his place.

After the announcement, TechCrunch caught up with Hewitt where he said that the move was due to Apple’s approval policies: