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Blake Ross Clones usually scare people, but they never work out. I don't think Snapchat has much to fear.
The level to which this is a clone of Snapchat is kind of astounding. Did FB ever try to buy them, or are they trying to destroy competition before they have to pay big bucks like they did for Instagram? It's all business, so I suppose all's fair, but it hardly paints Facebook as a hub of innovation.
From Facebook's point of view, why pay money for an app which can be developed 12 days? The only reasons they would acquire Snapchat are for the team and the users.
The users of Snapchat are likely to already have a facebook, so they likely don't care too much about the users. They will paint it as being more convenient for the users, which is true, but it's also true that the nature of capitalism is anticompetitive.
http://proletariat.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/the-myth-of-capi...
In the case of Instagram, Facebook had more reasons to acquire, but I still don't think that one was really worth 1.2 billion.
Oh, so message expiry is the new hot trend? Quickly, pivot!
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What is the purpose of that? i can't think of a single use aside from, say, sexting.
It's for fun, obviously, not everything has to have a utilitarian purpose... People take compromising photos, make ugly faces, etc., with the knowledge that the photo will only be seen for 3 seconds.
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What is the purpose of that? i can't think of a single use aside from, say, sexting.
It's for fun, obviously, not everything has to have a utilitarian purpose... People take compromising photos, make ugly faces, etc., with the knowledge that the photo will only be seen for 3 seconds.
"Each message expires after a specific time you've set, either 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds. When time runs out, the message disappears from the app." Sure it disappears from the app, but the message probably stays on Facebook's servers for the rest of your life. Then someday in the future Facebook will probably change their privacy settings suddenly (on purpose or accidentally) and all your messages will appear on your tim…
The younger kids won't switch from snapchat to this and they seem to be the audience for this kind of feature.
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It's for fun, obviously, not everything has to have a utilitarian purpose... People take compromising photos, make ugly faces, etc., with the knowledge that the photo will only be seen for 3 seconds.
Does screenshot not work during those times? I'm confused how this would give the sender any comfort at all...
People are dumb.
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The main difference here is that you can set messages to expire after a certain time interval - a feature that became massively popular with SnapChat.
What is the purpose of that? i can't think of a single use aside from, say, sexting.
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It's for fun, obviously, not everything has to have a utilitarian purpose... People take compromising photos, make ugly faces, etc., with the knowledge that the photo will only be seen for 3 seconds.
Does screenshot not work during those times? I'm confused how this would give the sender any comfort at all...