Ondrej Holzman Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg attended his first public meeting late last week Q&A performance, where he answered questions from the audience for over an hour. There was also talk about why Facebook decided on mobile devices some time ago separate messages from the basic application of the popular social network.
Since the summer, Facebook users can no longer send messages through the main app, but if they want to do so, they have to install it Messenger. Mark Zuckerberg has now explained why he did so.
I'm grateful for the tough questions. It forces us to tell the truth. We must be able to clearly explain why what we think is good. Asking everyone in our community to install a new app is a big deal. We wanted to do this because we believe this is a better experience. Messaging has become very important. We think that on mobile, every app can only do one thing well.
The primary purpose of the Facebook app is the News Feed. But people are messaging each other more and more. 10 billion messages were sent daily, but to access them you had to wait for the app to load and then go to the appropriate tab. We saw that the most used messaging apps were users' own. These apps are fast and focused on messaging. You probably text your friends 15 times a day, and having to open an app and go through multiple steps to get to your messages is just too much of a hassle.
Messaging is one of the few things people do more than social networking. In some countries, 85 percent of people are on Facebook, but 95 percent of people use SMS or other means of messaging. Asking users to install another app is a short-term pain, but if we wanted to focus on one thing, we had to build our own app and focus on that experience. We develop for the whole community. Why don't we let the user decide whether or not they want to install a new app? The reason is that what we are trying to build is a service that is good for everyone. Because Messenger is faster and more focused, we've found that you respond to messages faster when you use it. But if your friends are slower to respond, we won't do anything about it.
This is one of the hardest things we do, making these decisions. We recognize that we still have a long way to go in terms of trust and proving that the standalone messenger experience will be very good. Some of our most talented people are working on it.
Apple is driving us crazy! Information has arrived from Taiwan about the end of iPad mini production. It will take over the position of the ipod touch and become an entry model for poor people who want to have something from apple (you still remember the owners of ipads with 16gb).
IOS 9 and any progress? The info says that only for the Ipad Air 2, even with a minimum of 64 GB! Another job! IOS 9 will finally be progressive, but only for the chosen ones!
Apple is not ashamed to cut its users like dogs! Android shows the way and progress with its Lollipop. Apple rests on its laurels, let's not get robbed, let's run out into the streets, apple is the second nokia and it will fall on its ugly face!
I exchanged my iPhone for a Samsung Note 4 and threw the Ipad mini in the trash.
Take a break, troll :-)
That's bullshit :-(
I'm sorry, but you really are a complete moron
That's just as bad a translation as in the article above :-) Otherwise, mental health "works"?
Don't feed the troll!
Anton, you are a bit out of this article, but be careful, but your opinion is completely wrong, especially yours, let's run out into the street, it really amused me :-D how can Apple force you to cube their products?? I know it's up to each of us which platform we decide on, after all we are self-governing, but it looks like you probably don't, do you have a citizen's card at all?? depending on how you write here, probably not, or maybe you're twelve and you're still waiting for your OP, don't take it that I'd like to attack you in some way, but your post is out of the question, and your opinion in the post is a bit of an opinion are you even sane, isn't this the product of some 10-year-old boy, sorry
I write a few messages a month and that's why I don't want to install Messenger on my phone. To my surprise, I found that if I open facebook.com from a web browser, I can read and send messages. For me, a much better option is to wait a few seconds for facebook.com to open in the browser than to install another juggernaut.
The translation seems very bad to me. Would it be possible to attach the original text in English next time?
Otherwise, I'm probably one of the few people who feel that way, but I personally welcomed the separation of FB and Messenger. It suits me that I don't have to have people added in Friends on FB and I can write to them through that. And it suits me that I can get to the news much faster. For me, it's 100% better than the way things were.
exactly like that, in addition, before the entire FCB is loaded, it is sometimes difficult if I don't have 3G+ at hand .. this is more convenient
I also see a plus in this - I used to go to Facebook to see who was online, chat and scroll through posts while waiting for a reply.
Since it's special, I hardly go to FB, because the mb chat contacts are not there. I only use Messenger for replies because if I can't see the online status, I have no reason to message them.
So he saved some time.
I'm just not sure that they would make Mareček happy.
When will messenger be available for blackberry 10??