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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by ohyes on Sunday August 18, 2019 @02:26PM (#20731914)
I'm hoping for one that you can only use if you're sitting next to the other person.
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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by reaperducer on Sunday August 18, 2019 @03:36PM (#20732324)
In my office we use iCloud shared Notes to say terrible things behind the boss' back. Bypasses the company's IT system, so it can't be restricted. And each person erases the previous message, so it can't be recorded like SMS.
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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by RL_Quine on Sunday August 18, 2019 @03:42PM (#20732353)
It can be denied with a policy profile.
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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by reaperducer on Sunday August 18, 2019 @04:17PM (#20732551)
Unlikely since the sharing of iCloud notes is essential to our workflow.
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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by kmote00 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @05:27PM (#20733017)
Or, similarly, wouldn't it be cool to have a chat app that would detect people in the same geographic location traveling at the same speed. So your contacts would be the other people in the bus or train or plane that you're traveling in.
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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by DonHopkins on Sunday August 18, 2019 @11:29PM (#20734665)
When I was at TomTom, they ran a contest for employees to come up with fun ways to gamify their internet-connected GPS Personal Navigation Device3s.

Some wise guy came up with the brilliant idea of maintaining a real-time "Top 10 Speeders" leaderboard for every single road on the entire map. Kinda like Foursquare for speeding on local roads. No matter where you were driving in the world, you could instantly see the top ten speeds of other TomTom users who drove down that same stretch of road, and put the pedal to the metal to claim or defend your own spot on the leaderboard!

That one went over like a lead balloon with the legal department.

The only thing worse would be a chat app for texting while driving above the speed limit with other Leaderboard members along the same stretch of road.

They also didn't appreciate my proposal for TomTomagotchi: a simulated personality on your PND that relentlessly begs you to drive it all around town to various interesting places it wants to visit, to improve its mood and satisfy its cravings. (Kind of like having virtual kids!) I'm sure there's a revenue model having drive through Burger Kings and car washes pay for placements.

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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by jfk13 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @02:30PM (#20731942)
A notepad and pencil?
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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by ohyes on Sunday August 18, 2019 @03:23PM (#20732255)
That's genius, if we could upset the notepad and pencil industry, we would be huge!
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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by smt88 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @10:13PM (#20734376)
They had apps like this during the early 2010s and they bombed hard.
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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by ohyes on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:47PM (#20742128)
The timing has to be right, a lot more young people have been raised where communicating through an app is the default way of communication and actually talking to someone is really weird.
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Re:Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have l... by DonHopkins on Sunday August 18, 2019 @11:50PM (#20734744)
About as successful as the Portable Cone of Silence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcKHBgZ_QKU

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