Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger

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Post by rocky5 » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 9:38 AM UTC

Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger
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#2

Post by nemasu » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 9:52 AM UTC

I dislike fragmentation, so this is probably a good thing? I don't use Facebook to really care either way though.

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Post by higherpurpose » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 9:58 AM UTC

nemasu wrote: post #2

I dislike fragmentation, so this is probably a good thing? I don't use Facebook to really care either way though.

If you dislike fragmentation, then you shouldn't like this.

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Post by nemasu » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 10:00 AM UTC

higherpurpose wrote: post #3

nemasu wrote: post #2

I dislike fragmentation, so this is probably a good thing? I don't use Facebook to really care either way though.

If you dislike fragmentation, then you shouldn't like this.

I was under the impression they're consolidating 2 messaging front ends into one? I guess they're really just deleting one, but same difference.

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Post by sujito » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 10:03 AM UTC

The new battlefield is the real estate on your phone´s front page. FB + Messenger + Instagram + Whatsapp: 4 out of 16 icons, not bad.

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Post by brohoolio » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 10:06 AM UTC

For people like myself who have Facebook on my mobile but not the messaging app it means we now need to install it.

For some percentage of folks like myself that means we might start using facebook messaging more instead of using it as the messaging platform of last resort.

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Post by celebril » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 10:09 AM UTC

Oh great, now there's a double whammy 40 MB + 40 MB for the stupid MqttPushService that is run twice by the Facebook and the Facebook Messenger apps.

Might as well not use Facebook on this 512 MB device. Why can't Facebook just implement push via GCM without sucking all the memory and wakelocks itself?

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Post by corobo » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 10:16 AM UTC

nemasu wrote: post #4

higherpurpose wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you dislike fragmentation, then you shouldn't like this.

I was under the impression they're consolidating 2 messaging front ends into one? I guess they're really just deleting one, but same difference.

You could see it as that but if you were only using the Facebook app you'd be going from a single app to two apps

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Post by jdevonport » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 10:26 AM UTC

I have tried and uninstalled Messenger a few times, it seems like a really bad user experience to be bounced out of the main app whenever you want to have a quick chat with someone.

Waiting for apps to multitask switch can get very irritating and I think for me it would mean I use Facebook chat less if anything.

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Post by robk » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 10:28 AM UTC

I'm quite pleased about this actually. I find FB messenger to be annoying and I hate getting interrupted when I'm just popping into the FB app for a minute or two. This way I can leave it uninstalled entirely and check FB messages later from home.