Nobody that is smart trusts a company that provides services for free. If you are not paying you are the product and not the client.
Nobody Trusts Facebook, Twitter Is a Hot Mess, What Is Snapchat Doing?
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#22Maybe it's just that my phone (Nexus 5X) is getting old, but Snapchat is probably the worst Android app I've ever used. Not sure how the iOS experience is. Let's go down the list: - HUGE (>300 MB) - Extremely Slow/Laggy UI - Battery Suck (mainly because it auto turns on location services, etc.) - Sometimes soft bricks my camera (need to restart in order to use my normal camera app) I only use it to stay in the loop o…
It used to be unusuable on my Moto X -- activating the camera would cause the phone to randomly reboot. Only Snapchat ever did that...
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#23Maybe it's just that my phone (Nexus 5X) is getting old, but Snapchat is probably the worst Android app I've ever used. Not sure how the iOS experience is. Let's go down the list: - HUGE (>300 MB) - Extremely Slow/Laggy UI - Battery Suck (mainly because it auto turns on location services, etc.) - Sometimes soft bricks my camera (need to restart in order to use my normal camera app) I only use it to stay in the loop o…
> - Sometimes soft bricks my camera (need to restart in order to use my normal camera app) Skype manages to do that on Android as well recently (while it used to work fine before).
If userland software can soft brick the camera, the problem is not the userland software.
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#24Maybe it's just that my phone (Nexus 5X) is getting old, but Snapchat is probably the worst Android app I've ever used. Not sure how the iOS experience is. Let's go down the list: - HUGE (>300 MB) - Extremely Slow/Laggy UI - Battery Suck (mainly because it auto turns on location services, etc.) - Sometimes soft bricks my camera (need to restart in order to use my normal camera app) I only use it to stay in the loop o…
I gave up about a year ago after a year of using it. I don't know if they solved it now but it never managed to play video without huge lags... So one of the core features of the app. It was also crashing constantly indeed. It's clearly the worst app I've ever used on Android, it was an hackathon-level of quality.
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#25> The meeting I attended started with an employee lighting a candle in the center of the circle to dedicate the session to a cause, and then proceeded with a series of free-association prompts. A moderator asked us to tell a story about our names or a memory related to summer. This seems to me more like a cult than a company but maybe it works.
I'd be inordinately curious to hear from anyone as to how it works though.
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#26Mastodon is growing on me. These big ol' VC driven social media giants are all overgrown and the cracks are showing. With mastodon, if one instance screws up, just go to another and still contact friends. I can even choose an instance with the economic and decision making model of my choosing, or run one myself and just engage with the federation on my own terms.
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#27Nobody trusts this sector. Was the same for doctors a hundred years ago. Now doctors take an oath and lose their license if they are caught doing something unethical. Maybe the tech sector will get there one day too. Until then assume hostility.
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#28This is a great example of how personnel leadership doesn't matter for success, so long as your product leadership is successful. The product success subsidizes everything else, including absent or toxic leadership.
And yes, Snapchat is clearly successful. They might be taking hits from the majors and close down in the long run, but Snap did create a new product category and redefined how video is consumed. They were the clear leaders in mobile AR also, which people don't seem to appreciate.
It's been really hard for me to come to this conclusion about leadership, because I grew up in a culture where personnel leadership is paramount - if you're a bad leader you can get those under you killed, or they'll kill you.
The fact that this just doesn't translate to business, especially where businesses are so focused on consumer products, is a challenge.
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#29Mastodon is growing on me. These big ol' VC driven social media giants are all overgrown and the cracks are showing. With mastodon, if one instance screws up, just go to another and still contact friends. I can even choose an instance with the economic and decision making model of my choosing, or run one myself and just engage with the federation on my own terms.
>just go to another and still contact friends
the only problem is that you can only have friends of the type of people that use Mastodon
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#30Mastodon is growing on me. These big ol' VC driven social media giants are all overgrown and the cracks are showing. With mastodon, if one instance screws up, just go to another and still contact friends. I can even choose an instance with the economic and decision making model of my choosing, or run one myself and just engage with the federation on my own terms.
Thing is, I've seen performance issues on some of the instances out there. Also, the UI could use a lot of work before it goes mainstream.