Voice Social Network Clubhouse Arrives on Android

Clubhouse finally has an Android app that you can download from the Play Store -- provided you live in the U.S. From a report: The voice-based social network launched its beta Android app on Play Store for users in the U.S. on Sunday, and said it will gradually make the new app available in other English-speaking countries and then the rest of the world. The social network, valued at about $4 billion in its most recent fundraise, launched as an iPhone-only app last year. The app quickly gained popularity last year, attracting several high-profile celebrities, politicians, investors, and entrepreneurs. Clubhouse began developing the Android app early this year and started to test the beta version externally this month. In a town hall earlier Sunday, the startup said availability on Android has been the most requested product feature. "Our plan over the next few weeks is to collect feedback from the community, fix any issues we see and work to add a few final features like payments and club creation before rolling it out more broadly," the team wrote. As Clubhouse struggles to maintain its growth -- data from mobile insight firms including AppMagic suggests that Clubhouse installs have drastically dropped in recent months -- the Android app could prove pivotal in boosting the startup's reach across the globe.

The Question on Everyone's Mind

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The Question on Everyone's Mind:

So what?

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[sinij]

Clubhouse is the latest battlefront in woke wars, like this episode [thepostmillennial.com]. Only unlike traditional social media, mobbing is harder as you have to be there in person and speak for yourself and it becomes very clear when you don't know what you are talking about.

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[ArchieBunker]

For someone that constantly brings up their disdain for "woke" culture you sure do seem to follow it closely. You constantly throwing around the word woke is the equivalent of the Old Man Yells At Cloud headline.

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[sinij]

I know you are fully onboard with Woke, but the rest of us realize the danger of grouping people based on race and setting against each other.

Yay! More cancer!

[BAReFO0t]

(Of the pseudo-social variety.)

Is there really anything more to say about this?

Talk Radio Arrives to 2021

[edi_guy]

What's old is new again.

Clubhouse = talk radio
Doordash = Dominos delivery
Uber = taxis (the way taxis should have been in the first place)
Nextdoor = talking to your actual neighbors

and the list goes on.

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[fluffernutter]

Clubhouse seems more like those 1-900 chat calls.

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[Fly Swatter]

The last three you listed are middlemen type companies trying to justify why people think they should exist, they forcefully try to insert themselves into people's lives. Seems to be the business plan of many new companies. Well, no thanks - Domino's already delivers - Taxis were fine - Isn't Nextdoor just a junk mail spammer?

Proper data collection protection laws will doom most of these middlemen and social networks. Can't come fast enough, if it ever does.

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[segin]

Taxis were fine

I take it you've never ridden in one.

"There goes the neighborhood."

[bill_mcgonigle]

Part of the reason that Clubhouse was successful is that it 'kept out the riff-raff'* by not having an Android client. This new move will diminish its value for its userbase. (I'm neither an iOS nor Clubhouse user)

I once suggested that they further limit the iOS client to the latest Apple hardware. They're not going to compete against Discord and Twitter but they can sell exclusivity.

But - seriously - good for the founders who took an off-the-shelf VoIP library and re-branded and marketed the shit out of

Did this story time warp?

[MachineShedFred]

I'm just curious because "App X now available on Android" seems like a story from 2008, not 2021.

I don't give a damn if some niche "social network" (and it probably isn't) finally found it's way to Android, because I don't even want to use the major social networks that have already been there for years.

Seriously now, who gives a damn? And are we supposed to have front page postings whenever a new app arrives on Google Play that has been on iOS for a lot longer? Isn't this kind of what that particular "so

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