Facebook launches faster, cleaner Messenger app for iOS devices

It will probably take a lot of time for Facebook to integrate all its services into a single app, and we don't even know if it will eventually succeed. But every major endeavor starts with a small step, and today Facebook made one.

The social network giant has just it has launched a brand-new Messenger app for iOS devices, which is cleaner, smaller and faster. The new Messenger for iOS is just 1/4 the size of the previous app and contains just 360,000 lines of code, down from 1.7 million.

Because of that, the app will load twice as fast and will consume a lot less resources while ...