Facebook Yanks Its Poke And Camera Apps From The App Store

Goodbye, Facebook Camera and Facebook Poke. The social networking giant has quietly pulled both titles from the App Store. Both apps launched in 2012 and were derided as knockoffs of more popular titles. Just a little more than a month after Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion, the company launched its standalone Camera app. Users of the app could post multiple photos from their camera roll at one time, including high-resolution shots of up to 2,048x2,048. Much like Instagram, photographers could also crop their shots and apply a number of filters. After a major update in August 2012, the app faded into relative obscurity. The pictured Facebook Poke arrived in December of that year and allowed users to send self-destructing messages to their friends. A painfully obvious Snapchat clone, users could set each message to expire after 1, 3, 5, or 10 seconds. With the removal of those apps, Facebook now has five apps on the App Store – the main Facebook app, Paper, Facebook Messenger, Facebook Pages Manager, and Instagram. For other recent app news and reviews, see: AppAdvice Game Of The Week For May 9, 2014, Foursquare Talks Mayor Changes And More In Its New Swarm App, and Protect The Kingdom In The Challenging Tower Defense Brawler Mashup, CastleStorm - Free To Siege.