Re:Facebook Slingshot – A new way to share photos and videos
by cliveowen on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @02:21PM
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I'm happy to see someone who shares my exact same sentiment. I mean, when I read "but there's a catch, they have to send something first" I thought it was a joke. First of all, the fact that they made another snapchat with just a little spin on it says to me that they don't really know what they're doing; they're just after money, there's no vision behind it. Secondly, with all the useful products and services they could be developing for the betterment of society, they decided it would be a good idea to sink money in yet another pics sharing app. I fear the future will be just this: a selected few engineers making toys for the entertainment of the masses living on minimum wage. Bleak times indeed.
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Re:Facebook Slingshot – A new way to share photos and videos
by tothepixel on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @03:50PM
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I think it's more indicative of the way applications are being used these days.
Create a gimmick -> gain incredible popularity -> try to monetize your product -> users switch to the next gimmick -> create a new gimmick.
Re:Facebook Slingshot – A new way to share photos and videos
by XorNot on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @08:29PM
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Which does rather imply there's a big crash coming.
That's not a zero-sum nor value-creating cycle: everyone will slowly haemorrhage users, at the risk that the next "thing" isn't something that easily centralizes to a corporation - i.e. a generation of school kids who get big into some type of mesh-networked thing which solely goes device to device.
It would only have to be created once.
Re:Facebook Slingshot – A new way to share photos and videos
by thibauts on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @04:19AM
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If it's created as a platform (hear, a protocol) it may effectively need to be created only once. The whole online world is unknowingly waiting for it, and I feel it coming our way like, at raging speed.