Facebook may want to make more standalone apps, but that doesn’t mean it wants to publish apps nobody is using. Earlier this Friday, Facebook pulled the Poke app and the Facebook Camera app from the Apple App Store. Poke, Facebook’s Snapchat clone, was never a priority for the company, but features from Camera eventually made it into the main app. Don’t worry, Facebook’s beloved poke feature remains intact.
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