Facebook’s Messenger For The Android OS Enters Beta Phase

The Facebook app beta for the Android’s OS is catalogued as a triumph, considering that in excess of one million briskly testers lined up to report and repair potential flaws prior to the actual release. In the light of this success, the most popular social network in the world took the next logical step, namely the launch of their Messenger’s beta version for the aforementioned OS. Facebook plans to take the same precautions as with the main app, as well as pay a lot of care to the updates and patches that go out on a weekly basis.

Facebook’s point of view

Their attitude comes as no surprise, considering the extensive competition Facebook is faced with in the niche. The spokesperson of the company carefully explains that the emphasis is placed on delivering performance and reliability, the trademarks of virtually all quality products.

Facebook’s developers point out that they have learned a great deal from the previous beta testing campaign and that they are ready to implement this knowledge into practice with the Messenger beta launch. On a side note, if you would like to understand the scope of the Facebook app beta testing, then you should check out the testing campaign that started out in June 2013 spanned across 150 countries.

But what about iOS users?

We don’t doubt the fact that there would be thousands upon thousands of Apple fans who would be thrilled to participate in the beta testing campaign of the Facebook Messenger. However, Apple’s reluctance to take part in the process and the company’s penchant for consistency forced Facebook to take a different approach.

The Messenger for the iOS is undergoing tests via a complex system that implies a myriad of dissociated interfaces displayed to users, in an attempt to determine the optimal version using a statistical model. Definitely not as great as having an army of testers providing their input on what’s hot and what’s not.