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Yes. Equally/more likely that Instagram/YouTube are embarrassed and mad at how swiftly TikTok came in and made a much better and more popular product.
by xnx 11mo ago
Yes. Equally/more likely that Instagram/YouTube are embarrassed and mad at how swiftly TikTok came in and made a much better and more popular product.
- Flatterer3544 11mo agoThey built upon a French product, every change in the French product was adopted by a copycat (app by tiktok creator). Every attempt to ban the copycat app on Google store by the French was useless, since a new copycat app would pop up the next second. So it's not like tiktok is some new innovation. What they did is still amazing, but malevolent, but credit where credit is due.
- xnx 11mo agoWow, I'd never heard this. What French product?
- Flatterer3544 11mo agoThe french product was called Mindie, the start of endless short videos with music, the reels, and the copycat was chinese musical.ly (later bought up by Bytedance). Mindie failed because they got attacked by copyright claims by the big US tech, which obviously the chinese copycat was immune to, since China.
- xnx 11mo agoInteresting. I wonder if any of the Musical.ly creators ever saw Mindie. https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/16/from-a-failing-product-to-a-successful-video-sharing-app-mindie-raises-1-2-million/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/16/from-a-failing-product-to-...
- throw4r56u3e 11mo agoThis sounds like revisionist history.