think back when a few years ago , Facebook forced us all to download thestandalone Messenger appto chat with friends ? It appear it ’s now backtrack on that and await to roll chats back into the main Facebook app .
In a tweet , app researcher Jane Manchun Wong upload a screenshot of the unexampled desegregate chat mapping . In the top right-hand corner , you may see the same Messenger icon that land you to a chat window right in the chief app itself . Right now , if you want to chat via Facebook on mobile , the app will now switch you over to Messenger or prompt you to download it if you do n’t have it already .
Facebook is fetch the schmooze back to the app for preparing integrated messaging
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— Jane Manchun Wong ( @wongmjane)April 12 , 2019
This all tracks withrecent newsthat Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plan to undulate Instagram , WhatsApp , and Messenger into a undivided platform . The New York Timescitedsources within Facebook as saying that while the services will rest as their own apps , the tech behind all three will be unified . In any pillow slip , the Times write up suggest that integrate all three courier service is a self-aggrandizing antecedence for Facebook in 2019 , as Zuckerberg is reportedly pushing for the jointure to be done by the end of this year or early 2020 .
It ’s potential that pluck chat back into the main Facebook app is part of this effort , though it ’s not clear if or when it will undulate out to the general populace . Gizmodo reached out to Facebook for comment but did not directly encounter a response .
At the very least , Facebook testing this feature of speech out gives us a peep into how Zuck ’s mind has changed with regard to message and Facebook ’s “ family of apps ” overall . Back in 2014 , heexplained the forced moveto a standalone Messenger app was because , “ On mobile , each app can only focus on doing one affair well , we think . … The elementary design of the Facebook app is News Feed . ”
understandably , this vision of one app , one purpose has shifted since Facebook ’s acquired both Instagram and WhatsApp . Initially , Zuckerberg promised that Instagram and WhatsApp would continue independent . Since then , Instagram’sandWhatsApp’sfounders have all departed — rather abruptly — afterZuckerberg start count in more . And , given all the tough press follow Facebook ’s seeminglynever - ending series of scandals , lumping all these apps together might be a ploy at hold substance abuser locked in and engage .
[ The Next Web ]
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