Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by giarc on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:28PM
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Regarding the Spectacles. They only fetch those prices due to scarcity. If Snap made them available to a more wider audience, people wouldn't be buying them on eBay.
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by lozaning on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:39PM
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They're now available for any member of the general public to go buy, no invite or celebrity status required.
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by sushid on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:02PM
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Unless you're in NYC, you still have to wait 2-4 weeks for delivery. That might be why it's still selling for an ~$80 premium on eBay.
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by moolcool on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:27PM
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Remember the phone made by HTC and Facebook? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by notadoc on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:54PM
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Or Amazon
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by angryasian on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:57PM
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to me this all sounds like a company with little revenue and no focus and too much money that they are just trying everything to see what sticks to get them to bigger revenue
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by 1_2__3 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @10:32PM
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This is the correct answer.
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by vadym909 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:31PM
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Trend moving from So(cial)-Lo(cal)-Mo(bile) to AI-AR-Dr(one)-SDR(self driving)
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by InternetUser on Friday March 03, 2017 @05:50AM
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That is actually quite brilliant. Did you just make that up? I can't find it in Google.
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by dingo_bat on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:07AM
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Can somebody explain this?
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by tedmiston on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:59PM
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> And yesterday on eBay, 22 pairs of Spectacles were sold, with one pair went for $229 and 2 others went for $200 each...
Snapchat isn't making any additional money from the Spectacles resellers though.
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by MorePowerToYou on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:16PM
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The point is Snap knows how to make things people want. Contrast with GearVRs or Oculus Rifts. They're not selling for above retail on eBay.
Re:Snap Jumps in Debut After App Maker Raises $3.4B in IPO
by tedmiston on Thursday March 02, 2017 @06:03PM
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I don't think scarcity indicates anything more than a supply-demand imbalance. Some people buy products in this area just to resell even if they don't actually want it. It's tough to make an apples to apples comparison when one company artificially limited the early supply while the others didn't.
Bitmoji has been the #1 iPhone app overall since January 11, and it was already the #1 iPhone Utility app since July 22, 2016 (Log in to see) -
https://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/app/bitmoji-keyboard-your-...
https://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/top/united-states/overall/...
And yesterday on eBay, 22 pairs of Spectacles were sold, with one pair went for $229 and 2 others went for $200 each, even though http://www.spectacles.com has been offering them for $130 since last Monday -
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_from...
Then there is the rumored Android Snap Phone:
http://mashable.com/2017/02/14/snapchat-phone-concept-design...
And Snap Drones, as reported on page 2 of today's NYTimes -
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/technology/snapchat-drone...
http://i.imgur.com/6Nl0Ymq.jpg