What's to prevent an app like Authenticator from uploading its cryptographic seeds to Google's servers?
I was wondering why a company would invest resources into creating an app like Authenticator, which seems to have no obvious path toward monetization. But if the company who writes Authenticator can also spy on its users, then that might be the answer.
Different Android-based operating systems come with different UIs, and installing a new home screen UI on any of them is as easy as installing Angry Birds.
It will hopefully reduce the memory and processing the main Facebook app leaves and at the same time it will give everyone a great opportunity to ditch the Facebook messaging service in favour of the plethora of other messaging apps already installed on their devices.
I, for one, will stop using the Facebook messenger entirely on my phone.
Difficult to imagine them not reversing this decision at a later date.
For some percentage of folks like myself that means we might start using facebook messaging more instead of using it as the messaging platform of last resort.
It's sad, but I really do feel bad for the people who use Facebook nowadays. When I have to look at the job market again, I'm really not looking forward to having to (a) sign up in the first place, (b) have that stupid like button following me around everywhere again and (c) have to become "friends" with people that I really don't want to see anymore.
And then they bought Oculus VR. Seriously?
Might as well not use Facebook on this 512 MB device. Why can't Facebook just implement push via GCM without sucking all the memory and wakelocks itself?
The principle reason why I like the Messages app is that it's very fast to load - presumably because it isn't trying to download my friends' terrible photos and timelines and events and all the other junk that is in the main FB app.
Waiting for apps to multitask switch can get very irritating and I think for me it would mean I use Facebook chat less if anything.
That was an easy decision.
