Recently a photo showing a possible Facebook Messenger app for the Apple MacBook was leaked and released online. This new app would allow users to keep in touch with their friends from the desktop. According to rumours Facebook has been working on separating its messenger features from the rest of the website for a while. The leaked photo shows the same tab bar options as the Messenger app on iOS. Unofficial versions of the app released in the past lack of this bar.
MESSENGER.COM ALREADY EXISTS
Not long ago the company introduced a separate website Messenger.com for chat only. And Facebook’s idea is to transfer these features from a web page to an app. This would make it easier for people at access messenger. It would also lead to an increase in the usage of messenger, something Facebook has been seeking for years.
TWO APPS: ONE FOR FACEBOOK, ONE FOR MESSENGER
On mobile phones, the company already separated the News Feed from Messenger in two separate apps. As we use the feature constantly every day to message friends and Facebook’s idea was to create an app dedicated to that only. To date, it is widely use and has proved very successful.
The company previously released a desktop app for Windows in 2011. But after a few years of ignoring the app Facebook announced its shutdown in 2014. Since then, the social network was only available on the browser for computers, and on apps for phones and tablets.
FACEBOOK MIGHT MAKE DESKTOP CHATTING POPULAR ONCE AGAIN
However, according to the rumours, the company will be releasing a new app for Macs. No sign of a Windows messenger app so far, but the company may as well be working on it. This app could ultimately bring desktop chatting back in vogue, just like MSN used to be popular before the social network’s takeover. The only desktop chat officially available now is offered by Skype – however, the world’s biggest social network might be taking control over this once again soon.
