so facebook saved 3billion dollars and rolled out a snapchat clone in 30 days, it can claim a billion user in next 60 days
Facebook Messenger 3.0
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#22This is amazing. Now if only they took over email too. Facebook should completely pivot into an identification and messaging platform.
They do have email.
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#23>'say it better with stickers' Can't believe how much money is to be had from selling stickers in messaging apps
One of those asian messaging app companies makes 20%+ of their revenue from stickers (tens of millions of $ a month)
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#24So this is a shot across the bow at WhatsApp and kik and MessageMe right? Those apps are incredibly popular in developing nations.
... and LINE, and Kakaotalk, and ...
The thing is that many of these apps are both pretty good, and have insane market penetration... It's hard to see why anybody would switch to a FB app that's very likely worse if they're already using something else (so all their contacts are there).
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#25If you install this, the messaging tab in the primary Facebook app now just switches you to the Messenger app. What a weird choice. I decided to uninstall Messenger, I like being able to chat while browsing other Facebook pages.
Just tested, this happens on iOS. Not sure about Android. I definitely agree with you.
Pressing back brings you back into the standard Facebook app.
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#26Note: I think the app is syncing your address book with FB servers.
Only if you opt-in to it.
When you launch the app you're prompted to decide if you want to sync your contact list so the app can be used to contact non-Facebook friends. It's not doing it without your explicit approval.
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#27I just prefer to use the FB app it self. When I was using the Messenger app, I would get a notification from Messenger and the FB app, it got rather annoying.
The nice thing I've found about using the Messenger app is that it seems to put a lot less strain on my battery, especially after I disabled location services for the Messenger app. I like being able to disable location services in Messenger, but leave it enabled in Facebook. I don't really care if my location is tied to IMs (and often prefer that it's not), but it's usually nice for Facebook status/image posts that are essentially check-ins on the go.
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#28so facebook saved 3billion dollars and rolled out a snapchat clone in 30 days, it can claim a billion user in next 60 days
If you're talking about Poke, no one uses it. It hasn't been updated for iOS7, and most likely never will.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook-poke/id588594730?mt...
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#29If you install this, the messaging tab in the primary Facebook app now just switches you to the Messenger app. What a weird choice. I decided to uninstall Messenger, I like being able to chat while browsing other Facebook pages.
Just tested, this happens on iOS. Not sure about Android. I definitely agree with you. Pressing back brings you back into the standard Facebook app.
That's extremely strange behaviour. I can't imagine that sticking around in the long term. Switching views takes milliseconds, switching apps take much longer.
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#30This is amazing. Now if only they took over email too. Facebook should completely pivot into an identification and messaging platform.
strong troll?
Sarcasm I imagine.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/02/business/la-fi-tn-fa...
The email switch didn't work out so well.