Arent they doing pretty much that?
No, they'll force you to download messenger app.
You won't be able to chat or read MSG on fb app - when you click chat icon you'll be prompted to download messenger app.
Arent they doing pretty much that?
I misread what you meant. That said, by removing it they can make it better on its own and in the same way make the standalone app better as well as each one can be better focused and not just a pile of everything which is harder to maintain in general.No, they'll force you to download messenger app.
You won't be able to chat or read MSG on fb app - when you click chat icon you'll be prompted to download messenger app.
They should go oposit way, remove messenger app and improve it on main FB app. Having 2 apps is just wasting of space, and ram
Sad thing is that in Europe whatsapp is not as popular as in US, but ppl are using Facebook chat instead, so switch will be a bit painful ;/
Quite right. Doesn't really seem like a bad thing at all.By removing message capabilities from the main app, I would assume the app will no longer be a (huge) drain on the battery... Because the main app had messages, it was able to exploit certain restrictions because it had "voip" capabilities. Having background refresh and location services on should work as expected, without the major drain on the battery.
Pretty sure this was a big issue and covered here and other blogs awhile back.
http://www.overthought.org/blog/2014/the-ultimate-guide-to-solving-ios-battery-drain
They see the two as separate items. One is social networking and the other is messaging."As we've said, our goal is to focus development efforts on making Messenger the best mobile messaging experience possible and avoid the confusion of having separate Facebook mobile messaging experiences."
How about this: Let's avoid the confusion of having separate apps for social networking and messaging, and dump the Facebook Messenger app, instead?
Sweet. Two apps to clear notifications from when people spam me.
...More like two apps for people to ignore me until my birthday rolls around...
They see the two as separate items. One is social networking and the other is messaging.
Seems like that's how they want to go. Messaging is also present in Gmail on the web but on the phone Gmail app doesn't contain it and messaging using Google is done via the Hangouts app.The problem with "seeing" it that way is that the two share a common platform based on the social networking aspect, and the experience is not similarly separated on the web. By separating out Messenger, they aren't differentiating themselves. In fact, by doing this they're giving themselves little differentiation from kik, or BBM, or iMessage, or whatsapp, or the trillion other messaging platforms out there.
I used messages on my regular FB app yesterday.
Real friends don't let friends use Facebook Messenger?I don´t care about this. I chat with my real friends on Whatsapp.
And so I shall use beejive or IM+ just to spite them.
That will show them!If I must use a separate program, it will not be theirs.