Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
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Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#2Why not just sell it? I'm sure there's a buyer somewhere.
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#3Wow, I really like Vine and am surprised that Twitter's visions for its path to profitability don't include such a flourishing community.
Sad news keeps coming today... :(
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#4Why not just sell it? I'm sure there's a buyer somewhere.
Maybe they think spinning it out will cost more money than they'll be able to sell it for? It only existed as a standalone service for a few months, at this point it might not be possible to unravel it from the internal Twitter infrastructure.
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#5Doesn't Twitter do the same thing as Vine now that Twitter does videos? I never got into Vine, but kind of assumed this would happen when Twitter bought Vine. Selling Vine outright would perhaps cause people to move to the new Vine instead of Twitter video, so this (to me) would seem like the best bet to keep Vine's users and migrate them to Twitter.
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#6Instagram (Facebook) ate it.
Would be nice, by the way, if they could release the source code. Having such an example of a Flask app would be very useful for the community.
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#7Why not just sell it? I'm sure there's a buyer somewhere.
Maybe they think spinning it out will cost more money than they'll be able to sell it for? It only existed as a standalone service for a few months, at this point it might not be possible to unravel it from the internal Twitter infrastructure.
I imagine it's a combination of this and wanting Vine users to use the native Twitter video functionality rather than be owned by another company.
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
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Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#9Doesn't Twitter do the same thing as Vine now that Twitter does videos? I never got into Vine, but kind of assumed this would happen when Twitter bought Vine. Selling Vine outright would perhaps cause people to move to the new Vine instead of Twitter video, so this (to me) would seem like the best bet to keep Vine's users and migrate them to Twitter.
If that's the reason, it just seems so... destructive to me. This is something I respect about Facebook: they are willing to cannibalize their own products (e.g. instagram vs facebook, whatsapp vs fb messenger) because they realize how mercurial and segmented internet users can be.
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#10Another lesson on brands being platform agnostic, big Vine, Twitter, Facebook, $whatever numbers count for nowt.