Actually this might have a minor impact on kik. Lots of Instagram users use kik to communicate, so this messaging tool could affect them more than snapchat. Snapchat still has the decaying images feature as it's main selling point,
Introducing Instagram Direct
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I feel the same way. I often wonder with all the bright minds and current innovations in tech, why we still continually try to come up with novel ways to send cat pictures over the internet. Surely there are more interesting uses for the vast technological resources available to this generation.
You're missing the most important question in all of this: interesting according to whom? It's equivalent to someone that prefers non-fiction scientific educational TV shows, claiming that it's outrageous all of the money goes toward sitcoms or the next Avengers movie.
Reminds me of this Steve Jobs quote. Amusingly, you could substitute 'television networks' for 'social networks' and it would be a relevant argument today, despite being made 17 years ago:
"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth." - Steve Jobs, Interview in WIRED magazine (February 1996)
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#103So it's kinda like Snapchat, except your images can be viewed forever?
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel the same way. I often wonder with all the bright minds and current innovations in tech, why we still continually try to come up with novel ways to send cat pictures over the internet. Surely there are more interesting uses for the vast technological resources available to this generation.
You're missing the most important question in all of this: interesting according to whom? It's equivalent to someone that prefers non-fiction scientific educational TV shows, claiming that it's outrageous all of the money goes toward sitcoms or the next Avengers movie.
Fair enough. These apps do have their target market, I just feel like we (myself included) could be doing more to help people rather than just keeping them entertained.