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iPhone 5* screen has a place for 20 icons + 4 in the dock.
Can you have folders on iOS? I've bundled all of my messaging apps together.
Yes you can.
Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger
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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
Fragmentation is having multiple incompatible versions of the same thing, namely, two apps which both have a Facebook chat. Now there'll be one app with Facebook chat and one Facebook app without chat. No fragmentation.
There is absolutely fragmentation! What used to be one app is now three: Facebook (minus chat), Paper (with chat), and messages (only chat).
This time last year 2/3 of those apps did not exist. They have fragmented the user experience into entirely different apps. The concept you are mistaking for fragmentation seems to be the concept of duplication'. Right now all three apps do messaging and they will soon be reducing that number to two (Messages and Paper).
Not sure your math checks out…
Re: Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger
#23This is just an opportunity for Facebook to show twice as many ads as usual. It's sad, but I really do feel bad for the people who use Facebook nowadays. When I have to look at the job market again, I'm really not looking forward to having to (a) sign up in the first place, (b) have that stupid like button following me around everywhere again and (c) have to become "friends" with people that I really don't want to se…
How does it let them show more ads? Users already spend a huge amount of their time on mobile devices in the Facebook app. One user can only pay attention to one app at a time.
I guess not on iOS, but on Android you have to go through a few more steps to "chat" -- home > messenger app > search contacts > chat, versus just tapping a button. That is 2 more screens worth of ads to go through.
Re: Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger
#24For 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.
Or just use a web browser and use the FB mobile website.
Re: Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger
#25If the Messenger app will work without the Facebook app this could be a good thing? I would like to know about IMs people send me, but i have no interest in the stream of adverts and status updates...
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#27If the Messenger app will work without the Facebook app this could be a good thing? I would like to know about IMs people send me, but i have no interest in the stream of adverts and status updates...
I've been using the Messenger app exclusively for the past year, as I had no interest in looking through status updates or anything that the Facebook app did. Works wonderfully if you just want to respond to messages or send messages to people.
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#28The new battlefield is the real estate on your phone´s front page. FB + Messenger + Instagram + Whatsapp: 4 out of 16 icons, not bad.
Very interesting theory! Google must not have realized this because all of the google apps are in a single folder. Still, my home screen is 4 out of 20: Google folder, Gmail, Chrome and Authenticator.
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Fragmentation is having multiple incompatible versions of the same thing, namely, two apps which both have a Facebook chat. Now there'll be one app with Facebook chat and one Facebook app without chat. No fragmentation.
There is absolutely fragmentation! What used to be one app is now three: Facebook (minus chat), Paper (with chat), and messages (only chat). This time last year 2/3 of those apps did not exist. They have fragmented the user experience into entirely different apps. The concept you are mistaking for fragmentation seems to be the concept of duplication'. Right now all three apps do messaging and they will soon be reduci…
Well I'll give you this example.
If Facebook would release 3 Facebook apps, where each has mostly the same features, but slightly different, and on top of that each requires a different user/login, that's definitely fragmentation.
Say, you can argue WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, or Instagram and Facebook picture posting represent fragmentation for Facebook, as they do mostly the same thing, but are each in their own space and with their own APIs and their own users etc.
Another example. iOS having lots of apps in one App Store is not "app store fragmentation". But Android having many separate app stores, many apps in each being the same (but tweaked or different versions) is "app store fragmentation".