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Facebook's next major breakthrough is not going to be some nifty new feature, or yet another higher valuation, but its push for
HTML5. It is going to be a major breakthrough for the industry at large when Facebook is not a native app on your smartphone or tablet but rather still a browser experience. That would be
Mark Zuckerberg going toe to toe with his icon
Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs felt snubbed by Mark when Mark did not play along with some kind of a "social" idea Jobs had for his music offerings. Jobs retaliated by integrating
Twitter into his very operating system. Snub to Facebook. Mark retaliated by thumbing
HTML5 in Jobs' face.