Facebook and Messenger increasingly gluttonous in Windows 10 Mobile and already ask for a minimum of 2 GB of RAM

Facebook returns to the covers and it seems that it does not do so precisely because of the good work or the satisfaction it arouses in users. A company that is well in the eye of the hurricane due to the controversies that are unleashed by the use of the data that it shares and collects or by the not very adequate functioning of its app and that without mentioning other issues.

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And on this occasion it once again grabs headlines for a fact that the community of owners who use a phone with Windows 10 Mobile will surely not like, at least in cases where the terminal is fairer benefits.The reason? Facebook and Facebook Messenger applications are very gluttonous and want more RAM"

Let's remember that both applications, Facebook and Messenger, are two _ports_ that from iOS have come to Windows 10 Mobile with all the good things and also the less good things that the bitten apple platform offers. And in this sense, one of the aspects that they do not like is the one related to the minimum requirements

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It all comes down to the fact that Facebook has established a minimum requirement for system RAM so that its applications are functional on Windows 10 Mobile. Now 2 GB of RAM is required to optimally run the applications mentioned above."

These specifications can be seen in the list that appears on the download page of the respective applications and in principle it is not a limitation , since phones with 1 GB or 512 MB of RAM will be able to continue using both apps although they will not be officially compatible and therefore use and performance problems may occur.

For now it's not a problem but…

A first step to remove models from the market? Both applications are very popular and maybe with this measure ( although not now , if in the short term) owners of phones with more modest _hardware_ will be forced to change.

It does not mean that we all have to carry an HP Elite x3, a Lumia 950 or an Alcatel Idol 4 Pro in our pockets, but it does mean that in a while phones with 512 MB and 1 GB of RAM may suffer from performance in a more or less programmed way and therefore offer a worse user experience.

With news like this _what do you think about it? Do you think that these are poorly optimized applications or that we may be facing a more or less programmed movement to force the modernization of the mobile phone park?_

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