I wonder if we need an update to jwz's famous quote [0]:
"Every program attempts to expand until it implements user-to-user messaging. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones that can."
Putting the Chat into Snapchat
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#22When are they going to put proper encryption into Snapchat?
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#23I still can't believe they turned down $3bn.
Look at how much Facebook paid for Whatsapp. Features like this new chat feature will probably help SnapChat grow a lot bigger - then Facebook will come back with a much bigger offer.
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#24It's not a coincidence that they are coming out with new features right before CyberDust is about to become big(they are coming to Android this month). I will switch to CyberDust as soon it comes to Android not just because it's better than snapchat functionally, but because it doesn't reveal the people you talk to most to the whole world. I know a lot of people that don't have snapchat specifically for this reason.
BTW, CyberDust is Mark Cuban's response to the SEC charges.
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#25Doesn't this start to erode the spontaneity and key purpose of Snapchat? To what extent do you think this is feature creep?
I think it's supposed to be ephemeral (not spontaneous). The ephemerality doesn't change with this update as the conversations disappear when they're completed (with the option to save important messages). Similar to conversations IRL I guess. You speak with someone, note down/save important things such as addresses and then everything else is lost.
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#26I'm pretty torn on this. In my main circle of Snapchat friends, we use the app to make creative messages for each other that can't be seen again. It's really special because it feels like we're all hanging out again back in college: we're funny, spontaneous, a little bit inappropriate, and outsiders just won't get the jokes.
My own want for the update was to focus more on allowing us to express ourselves: give us easier and better tools to enable us to make messages more fun for each other. The feature could have been allowing users to record drawing strokes over a video or picture (sort of how Draw Something images presented themselves to the guesser) to give us another dimension to play with, time.
Instead the app just moved toward the mainstream app features, which are all mostly the same.
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#27I wonder if we need an update to jwz's famous quote [0]: "Every program attempts to expand until it implements user-to-user messaging. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones that can." [0]: http://www.jwz.org/hacks/
What would that update be? Or is "user-to-user messaging" explicitly text messaging?
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#28I wonder if we need an update to jwz's famous quote [0]: "Every program attempts to expand until it implements user-to-user messaging. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones that can." [0]: http://www.jwz.org/hacks/
What would that update be? Or is "user-to-user messaging" explicitly text messaging?
The original quote is about mail:
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Which itself may have been derived from an earlier Usenet quote about MIT [1]
"Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail."
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_law...
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#30I suppose the natural follow up question is, how will this affect my Snapchat score?