<story><title>Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tejaswiy</author><text>Oh man ignoring the privacy implications of this, all the &amp;quot;product&amp;quot; people at Facebook are going to destroy WhatsApp as we know and love. It is going to become a giant monstrosity with a 500MB binary size, lag, whole bunch of tracking code and super slow servers. It has begun to a certain extent already and it&amp;#x27;s only going get worse.&lt;p&gt;I assume they think that the network effect is going to lock users into WhatsApp but the moment it becomes too painful to run on a 100$ Android phone with 1GB of RAM, it will inevitably die. Sure it&amp;#x27;s not going to be instantaneous but I&amp;#x27;m a 100% sure that all the PMs that run Facebook Messenger are itching to get their hands on WhatsApp.&lt;p&gt;I understand these changes are only on the server side, but I imagine the client side is not too far away. Some client changes are inevitable because I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure they&amp;#x27;ll build a &amp;quot;unified&amp;quot; API for all these apps and it&amp;#x27;s is going to contain a whole bunch of messenger service code (because look at all those messenger features that noone cares about, surely we can&amp;#x27;t just drop what a whole org has been working on for two years)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wtmt</author><text>&amp;gt; all the &amp;quot;product&amp;quot; people at Facebook are going to destroy WhatsApp as we know and love.&lt;p&gt;Well, let it just die quickly! There&amp;#x27;s not much to love in products from a company that&amp;#x27;s repeatedly so hostile to its users. I&amp;#x27;m all for anything from Facebook dying sooner, and will be cheering when that happens.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/technology/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tejaswiy</author><text>Oh man ignoring the privacy implications of this, all the &amp;quot;product&amp;quot; people at Facebook are going to destroy WhatsApp as we know and love. It is going to become a giant monstrosity with a 500MB binary size, lag, whole bunch of tracking code and super slow servers. It has begun to a certain extent already and it&amp;#x27;s only going get worse.&lt;p&gt;I assume they think that the network effect is going to lock users into WhatsApp but the moment it becomes too painful to run on a 100$ Android phone with 1GB of RAM, it will inevitably die. Sure it&amp;#x27;s not going to be instantaneous but I&amp;#x27;m a 100% sure that all the PMs that run Facebook Messenger are itching to get their hands on WhatsApp.&lt;p&gt;I understand these changes are only on the server side, but I imagine the client side is not too far away. Some client changes are inevitable because I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure they&amp;#x27;ll build a &amp;quot;unified&amp;quot; API for all these apps and it&amp;#x27;s is going to contain a whole bunch of messenger service code (because look at all those messenger features that noone cares about, surely we can&amp;#x27;t just drop what a whole org has been working on for two years)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Stubb</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t trust Zuckerberg to keep your private messages private? Even if that somehow happens, he&amp;#x27;ll be selling your 
messaging network info to everyone with two nickels to rub together.&lt;p&gt;No thanks. Delete Messenger&amp;#x2F;WhatsApp and move everything onto other services.</text></comment>