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iOS first and username claiming
- kolev 12y agoThis is what a I commented here on the subject 3 days ago [0]: Looks like a lovely app, but I wonder why did they attempt to pollute the identity space with yet another username?! Let me give you an example of how this can work against them, which is applicable to other startups. Let's say, you're an early adopter and you got a nice Twitter username. Unfortunately, you're in the Android camp (me!). So, a new service comes up and some guy gets lucky enough to "steal" your username. You will then feel alienated from that service, because it doesn't solidify your identity. Same happened with Vine in the past. What's weird as these come out of a company that has invested so much into building a new identity as @username and now they are undermining their investment! Same happened with Facebook. They launched Slingshot, which invented yet another identity nomenclature. Not that I care about Slingshot, but if I did, it would unconsciously boycott it. I'm not talking about me personally (yeah, right!), but I'm just trying to think about possible scenarios. A smart and not so hard to accomplish thing even for the mobile first crowd would be to at least allow account creation on the web. How hard could that be? This way early adopters will blame themselves, not the service, for not being so "early" in the game. These are just some psychological aspects I wanted to share. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9273261 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9273261