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Of Course Facebook Is Putting a Snapchat Clone Inside WhatsApp (mashable.com)
Karissa Bell, writing for Mashable: Facebook is about to start pushing its next Snapchat clone on a new set of 1 billion+ users. WhatsApp is now starting to roll out its own version of Stories with an update to its Status feature. Launching now in the Netherlands and France, the feature will eventually be live in all the countries where the messaging app is available. [...] The update, which coincides with the chat app's eighth birthday, makes WhatsApp the last of the major Facebook services to get the Snapchat treatment. (The company started with Instagram last year before adding Snapchat-like features to Messenger and the main Facebook app.) Journalist Casey Newton sums up the situation with this sarcastic tweet, "Honestly whatever you think of Evan Spiegel, it's impressive that he's taking Snap public while serving as Facebook's chief product officer."
For those of us over 30, what does "snapchat treatment" mean? You can already send photos and video and make phonecalls.
moox. for a new generation.
I don't have a FB account, and I am much happier than those that do.
(ok, technically everyone has a FB account - they have shadow accounts on you even if you don't open one yourself.)
There is no bubble... real companies like Alibaba has done the same thing, and are making money hand over fist. Facebook and Snapchat make services that nobody else on the Internet ever can even come close to duplicating, and have broken new ground doing so.
This is just the start, folks. People laughed at BitCoin when it hit $300... and it is likely going to hit $10,000 and go from there by midyear. Same with tech companies.
There are tons of apps that did this on iOS and Android. Of course, the app had a good chance of sending the pic to an upstream provider where the editing was done, but hey, people are happy to trade everything for "free" stuff.
Sounds like the novelty factor on that would wear off pretty fast
moox. for a new generation.
Don't forget Meitu which has been insanely popular, and happily sends data overseas.
FB -- useful, because it is a core gathering point for people.
Snapchat? Useless.
WhatsApp? Useless. Photogene4 is far better, and is paid for.
My niece (13 yo) called me a dinosaur the other day.
"You're a dinosaur, you and my mom still have a Facebook account." I don't really know what to say. Do kids view Facebook as something for their parents so it doesn't matter what features are added they're not going to use any Facebook service? I have no clue because I don't "get" the appeal of Snapchat. The interface and functionality seems so disjointed. I was driving her and her friend when some boys in another car rolled down their windows and asked the girls for their Snapchat name. So many I'll buy some Snap stock when they IPO because all the kids are using it.
FB keeps attention by having new "stickers" be used and pulling older ones.
I don't have an internet!
Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most. - Clement Mok
+1 insightful (oh for Mod points) on " they have shadow accounts on you even if you don't open one yourself"
When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras
Just like the internet was AOL once.
Snapchat has one of the better UI's around, really discoverable and quick, with great presentation of content (always full-screen).
Many attempts to graft Snapchat into other apps have been done but they are all doomed to failure because they will never be as focused as Snapchat is.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It means that, like facebook messenger, it'll go from an app which lets you select a contact to start/continue a conversation with, to an app where the contact list is interrupted with irrelevant lists of who's online now (who cares?) and people you might know (huh?), before finally changing and being always one wrong press away from launching the camera and letting you add retarded shit like rainbows and stickers to photos. You'd have to be either a moron or 13 years old to appreciate it. I stopped using facebook messenger when this happened and it looks like i'm going to have to stop using whatsapp soon too. Who knows what to, though. Signal, perhaps, or just email maybe.
Many people I know have abandoned TV as well (not the device, but non-timeshifted cable service)
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Nice analogy. Hopefully we get the same ending.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Facebook has stolen the playbook from M$
is the new "I don't have a TV."
It's more like "I have an actual life I enjoy in the real world."
For the social media addicts out there, you don't have to tell me how pathetic your life is. We already know.
For those of us over 30, what does "snapchat treatment" mean? You can already send photos and video and make phonecalls.
- I am quite a bit over 30 but let me try this, isn't 'snapchat treatment' similar to hit and run treatment?
You can't handle the truth.
There used to be an app for Android called TextSecure. It was close to an ideal for messaging as one could get, because it did end to end encryption, no ads, could store texts encrypted, and so on. Wish it were still around.