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.
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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Can you have folders on iOS? I've bundled all of my messaging apps together.
Is there people still using iOS?
Re: Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger
#43I 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.
Re: Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger
#44That was an easy decision.
Re: Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger
#45The new battlefield is the real estate on your phone´s front page. FB + Messenger + Instagram + Whatsapp: 4 out of 16 icons, not bad.
Re: Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebook Messenger
#46The 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.
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.