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On the one hand, a Facebook Messenger app would have people spending less time on the website. On the other, Facebook would use it to mine more usage informati
by wlesieutre 9y ago
On the one hand, a Facebook Messenger app would have people spending less time on the website.
On the other, Facebook would use it to mine more usage information from your computer than they can get to from inside the browser sandbox.
Presumably they'd sidestep the Mac App Store's sandboxing requirement and just distribute it through their website.
- colatkinson 9y agoThey're already kind of separating Messenger from the main Facebook site. It's a separate app on mobile, and on desktop you can go to https://messenger.com https://messenger.com. They don't even have Facebook in the name anymore.
- cookiecaper 9y agoFacebook, like all major software companies, is concerned about corporate platform dominance. As long as they're controlling the underlying platform, they are happy. As a sibling commenter says, they already have non-Facebook-branded messaging apps, including messenger.com, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Expanding that surface area to include those who still manually install desktop messengers is natural.