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Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

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Re: Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

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Snap is the living dead now. No users left after boneheaded redesign, all their ads running are promoting their competitors, employees I know are basically pulling the copper wire out of the walls. Abandon ship! Also, will somebody please make a simple private picture app for grown-ups? I'd love to be able to share stuff with my sig other/parents/grandparents - and that's it. I can't recommend SnapChat in the state i…

Simple and private, have you considered Signal? End-to-end encrypted and quite a simple UI too, no need for accounts, works well on Android and iOS, etc.

Re: Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

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Snap is the living dead now. No users left after boneheaded redesign, all their ads running are promoting their competitors, employees I know are basically pulling the copper wire out of the walls. Abandon ship! Also, will somebody please make a simple private picture app for grown-ups? I'd love to be able to share stuff with my sig other/parents/grandparents - and that's it. I can't recommend SnapChat in the state i…

I use Google photos, primarily because of how friendly it can be cross-platform. It's especially helpful that I can easily build custom albums with just a couple of taps and usher it out to any contact, regardless of whether or not they already have an account set up. Sending invites over text message or any other messaging platform is dead simple. I used to support Apple's shared albums but I haven't been engaged with that platform since I started to use the G Photos app to back up and free storage space on my phone. It also made switching devices relatively painless since I didn't have to worry about 10+ Gb of transfer.

If it didn't feel like Apple was playing catch up with Google Photos, I might've used iCloud more. Also, I hit that 5 Gb threshold very early on.

Re: Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

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1 year cliff, non-news Still bad news for Snap confidence, of course edit: didn't make it 1 year, whoops hope they got the golden parachute negotiated in

He started in May 2018, so it's not clear he will reach the 1 year cliff.

ah thanks, I misread the 12 months part of the article

Re: Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

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Is Snap actually dying? I recall there were similar news for Apple, Facebook(debatable on their current state) etc, but they rebounded back up.

Maybe this is the time to buy low and make it big (when everyone is doubting them). It'll be interesting to see.

Re: Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

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Snap is the living dead now. No users left after boneheaded redesign, all their ads running are promoting their competitors, employees I know are basically pulling the copper wire out of the walls. Abandon ship! Also, will somebody please make a simple private picture app for grown-ups? I'd love to be able to share stuff with my sig other/parents/grandparents - and that's it. I can't recommend SnapChat in the state i…

Google Photos has been great for that usage, although it depends what you mean by private..

My GF also uses a private Instagram account for this, but that's even less private than a Google service.

Re: Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning

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Is Snap actually dying? I recall there were similar news for Apple, Facebook(debatable on their current state) etc, but they rebounded back up. Maybe this is the time to buy low and make it big (when everyone is doubting them). It'll be interesting to see.

It’s going down for good reasons.
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