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Not bad, but is loopt going anywhere as a company? Just wondering, as I don't know anybody using it. Might do good as a free service, but having people pay
by ardit33 19y ago
Not bad, but is loopt going anywhere as a company? Just wondering, as I don't know anybody using it.
Might do good as a free service, but having people pay for it might hamper their adoption. And critical mass is what is needed for this kind of applicaiton. Unless your friends are in there too, the service is not useful by itself.
- tlrobinson 19y agoAccording to their site, they already are charging people: How much does Loopt cost? Free until Jan 2008. After that date, new accounts get a 30-day Free Trial and then $2.99 a month. Most of my friends and I don't use Loopt, but only because it's not offered for iPhone or AT&T yet. I think I would if I could. I agree it needs to hit critical mass for it to really take off. I think the iPhone would definitely help with that.
- axod 19y agoI'm also unconvinced. The only time I hear about it is on here. Is it that much better than sending an SMS email or calling? Enough better to pay for?? Seems like a kind of useful feature you'd expect to be free with your phone.
- drm237 19y agoTo me, the value of Loopt isn't so much that if you want to meet up with a friend you already know where they are. Instead, it's if you're in a coffee shop and you notice that your friend is in the book store 100 feet away, you can take advantage of that opportunity. As Sam says, it's surprising how there are typically close friends in your general vicinity that you wouldn't know were there otherwise. SMS can't replicate this behavior.