Facebook Is Shutting Down TikTok Clone Lasso and Pinterest Rival Hobbi (cnbc.com) 16
Facebook confirmed that it's shutting down two of its little-known social media apps shortly after their launch. TikTok rival Lasso and Pinterest rival Hobbi will both be terminated on July 10. CNBC reports: Lasso, the more popular of the two, allowed people to record videos up to 15 seconds long and overlay music on top. It was launched a year-and-a-half ago. Lasso issued a push alert to users on Wednesday telling them that it will be shutting down. In order to try to compete with ByteDance's TikTok, which has been downloaded over 2 billion times, Facebook-owned Instagram has developed its own video-music mix feature called "Reels."
Pinterest-rival Hobbi, which only went live on the Apple App Store in the U.S. in February, also issued a push alert to users on Wednesday letting them know that it was closing down. The app, designed by Facebook's New Product Experimentation team, allows people to document, share and organize their hobbies. It has received just 7,000 downloads, according to Sensor Tower.
Pinterest-rival Hobbi, which only went live on the Apple App Store in the U.S. in February, also issued a push alert to users on Wednesday letting them know that it was closing down. The app, designed by Facebook's New Product Experimentation team, allows people to document, share and organize their hobbies. It has received just 7,000 downloads, according to Sensor Tower.
And no one noticed (Score:3, Insightful)
Or cared.
Facebook now following the Google style "throw it at the wall and throw it out if it doesn't stick" application design philosophy instead of actually thinking about what people might want that they don't already have.
Innovation at its finest.
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Gotta admit i had no idea these entities even existed.
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It's kind of ridiculous, the "service is shutting down" announcements get more press than the services themselves while they were still running. How can companies that are build on ads be so bad at advertising their own stuff?
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I find that the stock photography sites are the ones polluting image searches. I wish Google would have a switch that specifically omitted stock photo sites from a search.
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And then, others too. Or maybe others already did? :/
What made TikTok so popular? (Score:1)
Where was ground zero for this virus?
Re:What made TikTok so popular? (Score:4, Funny)
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I believe it was "kids these days!" (one might argue that desire for immediate gratification and the attention span of a caffeinated gnat are the main factors)
Here here. Well said.
Zuke learned his IT smarts from the early masters. (Score:1)
The Zuke sure has the IT smarts. Absorb and dissolve is and was the greatest of all IT business techniques, although the original masters of the craft have always been in Redmond.
The wet dreams of Ballmer to take over all communications on the internet is still a meme there to this very day.
They sure blew it with not getting into cell phone tech the right way and numbing down communications enough to get users/customers away from the keyboards upon which this post is being written.
I do see those who, even
Godammit, the ... (Score:3)
... conservatives were just signing up for those.
Seems shortsighted; India's just banned TikTok (Score:3)
There are over 280 million Facebook users in India alone, making it the leading country in terms of Facebook audience size.
As of June 2019, it was estimated that there were 120 million monthly TikTok users in India.
The Indian Govt. has just banned TikTok (and other Chinese apps.)
Am I missing something here?
Or maybe Facebook's clone really, really sucks?
Don't do that to me! (Score:2)
"Facebook Is Shutting Down..."
My hope went up and then I saw that there was no period after 'Down'.
lol, what? (Score:2)
"TikTok rival Lasso and Pinterest rival Hobbi"
I've never heard of either of them but maybe that's because I don't have a Facefuck account.