“In another display of how native apps are beating the web, the social networking behemoth Facebook revealed intentions to launch its first native chat client for the Mac,” Christian Zibreg reports for 9to5Mac.
“Put simply, it brings Facebook to your desktop and lets you chat with people without logging into Facebook.com in a browser,” Zibreg reports. “The company posted Messenger app for iPhone in August 2011 and today released the Facebook Messenger for Windows client, bringing the Facebook Chat functionality to beige boxes.”
Zibreg reports, “According to The Verge, ‘A Mac version is on the way, but the company declined to give us a timeframe for that one.’ Sounds like Facebook’s Mac client will be the perfect candidate for the new Notifications feature in OS X [Mountain] Lion.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
everything FB makes (web, iPhone, iPad) is TOTAL junk!
You can already add Facebook chat into iChat.
Ya, I use it in iChat.. it times out periodically but it works great!
In other news CIA announces new anti-terrorist IM monitoring tool..
Just what we need, another dedicated client for messaging.
What Apple needs to do is put iMessage on the iPad/iPhone and give its users the option of adding outside services.
Apple talks about being able to pick up your device and have any content loaded on it.
No thanks! I see enough of FB and one more to add will drive me nuts. lol
What am I missing with FaceTime?
FB is evil and must die too. They hate Apple.
Look, I hate FaceBook as much as the next guy, but let’s agree to use facts when we make such statements, okay?
Facebook loves Apple.
FaceBook is crap and anything installed by FaceBook will be crap.
who wants to talk to a Windblows Facebook user?
When hell freezes over.
BOYCOTT FACEBOOK – LET WINDBLOWSLATE HAVE THEM.
I like it. Ill prob use it. Fb is the only way I can contact some of my family members it seems
Who cares. Use the phone, horse & buggy, walk. FaceBook is MySpace, just taking longer to die.