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Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by eganist on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:29PM (#14861332)
My reasoning for loathing snap was their refusal to even allow a snap client for windows phone to exist.
Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by JohnnyConatus on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @09:52PM (#14862036)
No more entries, we have a winner for the most obscure reason to dislike a social service.
Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by michaelbrooks on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:34AM (#14863573)
I don't loathe Snap, but I do dislike their decision for not supporting Windows 10. Microsoft even offered a cash incentive to Snap for creating an app and Snap still outright said no. Surely no matter how much you hate a platform, if you're being offered an incentive, you would say yes?
Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by daveFNbuck on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:37AM (#14863785)
There's a huge opportunity cost in putting some of your developers on creating an app for a niche market. Snap probably felt that Microsoft's incentive didn't cover that cost.
Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by tazard on Thursday July 27, 2017 @08:46AM (#14864734)
Not to mention maintenance and upkeep.
Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by electic on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @09:33PM (#14861957)
Sounds like they made the right choice because the platform collapsed. It makes no sense spending design and dev time on a platform that simply isn't taking off.
Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by michaelbrooks on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:30AM (#14863562)
I think he's on about allowing a third party to create and support a Snapchat app for Windows devices. There was 6Snap which worked really well, but got shut down because Snap were forcing third parties to close their apps. Someone also created an open source app on Windows, but I'm not sure what happened to that one.
Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by jdhn on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:58PM (#14861492)
There actually was an unofficial Snap client for Windows Phone for a time. I thought it was pretty good to be honest.
Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year by aplummer on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:08PM (#14862123)
6snap, also the same author as tinder and insta clones.