Facebook appears to be working on a Messenger desktop app for Mac computers, according to TechCrunch.
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Users when have access to Messenger desktop app will not have to get buried in one of the several web browser tabs and switch between them when they text friends instantly from the Dock.
A leaked image and an eyewitness statement reveal that Facebook is now developing an official Messenger-like app for Apple’s Macbook.
In the photograph, it may be seen that the worker was working on app that features a navigation tab bar within the backside left.
As many as 800 million people across the globe use Facebook’s “Messenger” app every month, the social networking giant’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday.
A company spokesperson “declined to comment on rumor or speculation”, but Josh Constine said that is “the same boiler plate response” he has received in the past when his sources were correct. Businesses want a presence on people’s smartphones, but nobody wants to take the time to download or use their apps when they’re only going to need them once in a blue moon. Marcus said the firm’s Messenger app offers all the things that makes texting experience a lot more popular. We have no information about when or even if Facebook might release Messenger For Mac.
Back during 2011, Facebook started posting opening for employment for software engineers on desktop to work on Mac and PC apps. Aside from being an internal test that might never be launched at all. Hike Messenger, an upcoming rival of Facebook’s WhatsApp, implied that Facebook deliberately blocked ads that directly put users to the app’s website.
However, it is obvious Facebook intentionally separated Messenger from the main platform on mobile as a sacrifice for controlling chat functions the more. To give you a clear picture of what this really is all about, here is an overview of how Facebook will come out in 2016. Having to locate your Facebook tab or juggle its window into view is cumbersome when Facebook’s goal is to remove friction from communication.
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While Messenger has been its own app for a long time, in 2014 Facebook made it mandatoryfor mobile Facebook users, and in 2015 turned it into a full-fledged platform for third-party developers to add their own features to. But the Messenger For Mac could let chat rise above.
