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My own experience tallies with this quite closely. I think we passed peak Snapchat last year, and that Snap knows it, hence the IPO. Which is depressing if you
by Analemma_ 10y ago
My own experience tallies with this quite closely. I think we passed peak Snapchat last year, and that Snap knows it, hence the IPO.
Which is depressing if you think about it, because it means Facebook's strategy of "buy them, and if they won't sell, clone them and crush them" is working really well. That's not how I want the world to work, but that's the truth.
- ad-hominem 10y ago> "buy them, and if they won't sell, clone them and crush them" Also known historically as "The Gates Maneuver"
- coralreef 10y agoJust wondering, how would you prefer the world to work? I imagine the alternative is Snapchat gets some sort of patent and nobody can make an app with expiring photos?
- kinkrtyavimoodh 10y agoSo a badly engineered app that is a UX nightmare and has a general discoverability problem seems to be losing to a high quality app that has huge network effects backing it and that took the only USP Snapchat had (disappearing pics) and implemented it in a much better manner. And somehow this is a bad thing because hating on FB is fashionable in these parts.
- ymse 10y agoI recently introduced two friends to Signal (because they couldn't get me on Snapchat). Later I caught one party sending a "snap" to the other and asked why not use Signal instead, and the reply was something about ease of use. It turns out, sending a one-off picture with Signal is one click less than Snapchat. Also, normal people don't care about privacy.
- 1337biz 10y agoso... What's next?