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> acquisition of an existing viable product. (Messenger, Messenger is native at Facebook. It's born on Facebook.com as a floating non-permanent window that onl
by sureIy 2y ago
> acquisition of an existing viable product. (Messenger,
Messenger is native at Facebook. It's born on Facebook.com as a floating non-permanent window that only works when the other person is online. Wikipedia seems to confirm this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(software)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(software)#History
I agree on the Portal, it's perfect to call my grandma. I dread the day it will stop working because the alternative is an iPad that is worse in nearly every way (as a tabletop VC device for grandma)
- mgiampapa 2y agoMessenger is a product born of an app called Beluga, https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/facebook-messenger-beluga/ https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/facebook-messen.... It wasn't an app where they took the userbase, but the app was bought and the team tasked to build Messenger. (Source, I worked at FB from 2009-2016)