Facebook is working on a new mobile platform designed to take on Apple's App Store, TechCrunch is reporting.Dubbed Project Spartan, the project will work only on mobile Safari, the social-media blog claims, citing anonymous sources. The new platform, aimed at iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad, will reportedly be HTML5-based, making it compatible with mobile Safari. TechCrunch says that people "familiar with the project" believe Facebook wants to "use Apple's own devices against them to break the stranglehold they have on mobile app distribution."
TechCrunch's report about Project Spartan follows another report from the blog, saying that Facebook is working on a photo-sharing application for the iPhone. That service, TechCrunch claims, will be a standalone app that relies upon the Facebook social graph, but is not integrated into the social network.
Facebook declined to comment on the notion of the photo-sharing app, and did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the purported Project Spartan.
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