Facebook says goodbye to its applications for Windows Phone
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What was given is over. The party of Windows Phone apps ended too soon. Microsoft immediately stopped competing against the big giants: Apple and Google. Today the one that says goodbye to Windows Phone is Facebook.
In fact, a date has already been set. As of April 30, as indicated by a Microsoft spokesperson to Engadget, the Facebook ecosystem applications that until now had been available for Windows Phone they will disappear.As simple as that.
The aggrieved on this list are, logically, the original Facebook application; Messenger, the messaging service and Instagram, the famous social network that also belongs to the Facebook factory. Applications will no longer be available for download in the Windows Mobile application store.
Goodbye to Facebook apps for Windows Phone
If you are a user of a Windows Phone device, you should know that as of April 30 you will no longer be able to use these applications. If you still haven't thought about changing your phone, because you're not interested or because you're still clinging to what was Windows Phone, you'll have to access Facebook, Instagram and Messenger through your browser.
The issue is somewhat tricky, because Facebook, Instagram and Messenger are among the best free applications, this is also the most downloaded, from the Microsoft StoreAnd it may, although there is no certain data that can help us to know it, that those affected are a few.
In any case, users have already been warned about this event. At least the ones on Instagram. Since, as reported by Windows Central, those who participate in the Reddit forums report that received a notification that Instagram will kill their application starting on April 30th.
Chronicle of a death announced from before 2016
Microsoft officially announced it was killing – or letting Windows Phone die – in 2016.The expected sales had not occurred, so that Redmond's preferred to abandon ship and give way to its fiercest competitors, who are none other than Google and Apple.
Since then, users know perfectly well that Windows Phone's days are numbered, but even so, it is logical that if phones were sold at the time, there are still units in operation around the world.
In any case, using a device with Windows Phone offers very few advantages and even less when it comes to security. Security updates stopped being released in December 2018, although the leak of apps and developers from the Microsoft store has been noticeable since 2015. That's why It should come as no surprise at all that Facebook has decided to take the music elsewhere.
By now you may be wondering why, in the middle of 2019, there are still people clinging to their Windows Phone. Well, this may be so for many reasons. Experts point to the camera as responsible for his fondness.
There are users who, for example, don't even want to hear about Apple or Google because they don't trust the way they manage their privacy. It may also be that the latest owners of mobile phones with Windows Phone are free spirits,who prefer to have a mobile phone in their pocket with hardly any applications, with which to enjoy greater peace of mind. Everything can be in this life, but it is clear that his experience with Windows Phone has, despite his resistance, the days numbered.
