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Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS (www.theverge.com)
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[-] Pechente@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Meta is also planning to drop its native WhatsApp Windows app in favor of a web wrapper version soon, in what looks like a move to simplify WhatsApp development.

So they are just going back to what they had before, probably to save money.

But don’t they have AI now which makes development so much faster, easier and cheaper? It’s these things where you can see these companies are full of bullshit.

[-] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Tangentially related but I have to harp on about it because almost nobody is saying it. Microsoft —and specifically xbox — Had it’s most profitable yearS ever and people (journalists) still try to rationalize every time they raise prices and lay off thousands and thousands of workers

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

What? It feels like a web wrapper right now, I always thought it was an old backend because the web app had better functionality.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

let me guess ... you will now have to ask an ai agent to communicate to your contacts for you

[-] Dagamant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Messages is the only place they don’t spam ads at you. I use the messenger app for work because they think Facebook is the best way to do business communications. Maybe I’ll be able to convince them to switch to something else.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Teams!

/j /j /j

[-] Dagamant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hell no

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Desktop site is the only place I access messages. Get fucked Zuck I'm not putting your spyware on my phone. If that method ever goes away, I guess no more messages for me..

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

I just flat out quit messenger when they made it app-only. I'm not installing that shit in my phone or my computer. Facebook on my phone is just the web app.

Best part is no little red digits telling me I'm missing out on something (spam and shit I don't care about 95% of the time). I check it when I think to. That's once every few months which is about how often I'm interested in updates from people who aren't in my life any more.

I'd like to replace all of my apps with bookmarks eventually. No one needs that kind of data on me.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I just flat out quit messenger when they made it app-only.

but they didn't.

or you mean on the phone? switch on desktop site mode in firefox and done. but it's harder to use on phone sized screens

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I did that for like a year, but eventually I lost my ability to use it even through a browser. Not sure why your experience was different. Maybe Android vs. iOS? Anyway, I've been off it so long now it doesn't matter. No one uses it to reach me.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Based on how often it happens, "curse and find whatever f'n tab is now making the noise" is my favourite game.

Fuck this "web as app" shit.

[-] Taldan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm confused. Are you upset the app is being removed? As in you don't like webapps, you want them as apps?

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Honest question: who even uses this bullshit?

[-] dan@upvote.au 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

WhatsApp and Messenger are the #1 and #3 most used messaging apps in the world. (#2 is WeChat)

In Australia where I'm from, Messenger is the most popular by far.

[-] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

All my mates still sms which feel like one step from the bush telephone these days.

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