Direct by Instagram - Instagram's new messaging app

Smart move! Similarly to Facebook separating Messenger - I can see this following the same path. Monetization efforts surely to follow as the network effect proven successful time and time again.

Apps on apps on apps! Am I a stuffed shirt for not wanting yet ANOTHER Instagram app on my phone to do something that could be accomplished in the app I have now? Maybe I am. That being said, the tech nerd in me has to download it and try it. Lol.

Funny, it says it's not compatible with my Samsung S8 in the UK ???

I reckon this is being thought in a way that other apps can afford (and should be) thinking; not exactly Instagram. Almost any decent chat app has voice, group video, geolocation, video, stories, webconferencing, bots, P2P/E2E encryption and other integrations. The term messenger/chat itself has been morphed into what we could easily call mobile communication systems (MCS or MoCos). This ecosystem is not only overcrowded at the moment, but it is also stagnated with sameness. I see no real benefit for a text-link-photo simple chat app inside Instagram, which as a service, can’t really accomodate all these other popular (and better) things that other apps already do. Unless they are planing to allow/sell images within the chat and make it something to help the native Instagram Imagery/Media Workflow, perhaps in a more business manner, the it’s just another fooken carbon-copy noise app.. .. pardon my French.

Another separate app? Microservices as apps.

Looks like we've a solid Uruguayan community here on PH or they're all excited about anything from Facebook.

I love new apps. Let the message wars begin!

Don't do that, please. Facebook, please!

Waiting for it in India so that it will help me reinstate my belief that they shouldn't have done this - even as an experiment. :rolleyes:

Oh come on Facebook... !!! Be creative... at least one more time ^^