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

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

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I've been using the two apps for a while now and I'm perfectly happy - the only annoying aspect is sometimes I have a little red notification counter above both apps when I receive a message.

The principle reason why I like the Messages app is that it's very fast to load - presumably because it isn't trying to download my friends' terrible photos and timelines and events and all the other junk that is in the main FB app.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you have folders on iOS? I've bundled all of my messaging apps together.

Is there people still using iOS?

I know I shouldn't feed the trolls but let's all be clear iOS still has a large percentage of web traffic, app downloads, and money spent in the app store/in-app purchases and it's lead it actually growing.

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

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I see this as a good thing. It will hopefully reduce the memory and processing the main Facebook app leaves and at the same time it will give everyone a great opportunity to ditch the Facebook messaging service in favour of the plethora of other messaging apps already installed on their devices. I, for one, will stop using the Facebook messenger entirely on my phone.

Will be interesting to see if they see this through. I might be missing something, but I don't see any business reason for them to do this. They will lose some users, and that seems a painful prospect for them. They value user bases so much that they paid $19B for Whatsapp. Difficult to imagine them not reversing this decision at a later date.

Their purchase of whatsapp is exactly why they did this, IMO. I'd be very surprised if facebook messages doesn't become whatsapp and get completely tied into it. That's really the only way buying WhatsApp for $19B makes sense.

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

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

iPhone 5* screen has a place for 20 icons + 4 in the dock.

For most smartphones the number of icons that fit on a home screen is independent from the device type or the operating system on the device.

Different Android-based operating systems come with different UIs, and installing a new home screen UI on any of them is as easy as installing Angry Birds.

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