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0 pointsnemasu12y ago0 comments

I was under the impression they're consolidating 2 messaging front ends into one? I guess they're really just deleting one, but same difference.

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corobo12y ago· 2 in thread

You could see it as that but if you were only using the Facebook app you'd be going from a single app to two apps

mantrax412y ago

Fragmentation is having multiple incompatible versions of the same thing, namely, two apps which both have a Facebook chat.

Now there'll be one app with Facebook chat and one Facebook app without chat. No fragmentation.

err4nt12y ago

There is absolutely fragmentation! What used to be one app is now three: Facebook (minus chat), Paper (with chat), and messages (only chat).

This time last year 2/3 of those apps did not exist. They have fragmented the user experience into entirely different apps. The concept you are mistaking for fragmentation seems to be the concept of duplication'. Right now all three apps do messaging and they will soon be reducing that number to two (Messages and Paper).

Not sure your math checks out…

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