BOLT
Instagram has released quietly an snapchat like app. The new "one-tap" messaging app, named as Bolt, for iOS and Android. The app lets you quickly send a photo (or video) to a friend, which then disappears once it's been read. Tap on a friend's face to send a photo instantly, or long-press on their face to send a video. Shake your phone to undo an accidental Bolt.
Bolt, like Taptalk, only
lets you send messages to one person at a time, which makes it most
useful for sending quick photos or videos to a small number of people.
The favorites bar at the bottom of Bolt only holds four friends, after
all, though you can add up to 20, a list of which you can access with a
swipe.There's a catch , Bolt is for now only available in New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa.
Instagram still operates largely as an independent company within
Facebook, we're told, making its own decisions on most everything. Bolt,
for example, includes no Facebook log-in. To find friends, you have to
sync phone numbers from your contact list, like with Snapchat or
WhatsApp. So, I think Bolt addresses a desire within Instagram to create
a sharing tool that's fast and casual.
"Our tradition is that we look at a space and create a super simple, pretty experience to fit it."
Instagram doesn't seem to have
any qualms about imitating any of the apps that inspired it. "When
Instagram itself launched four years ago, we weren't the first photo
filter app," said a spokesman. "Our tradition is that we look at a space
and create a super simple, pretty experience to fit it."
It seems that before Bolt has
even made its way to the rest of world , it's already finding itself in a heap
of drama. The drama ultimately won't matter, however, if Bolt is
genuinely useful to millions of people. And Instagram certainly hopes it
will be. "This isn't a side project," said the Instagram spokesperson.
"We are totally behind this thing."
This is great news for consumers as there's a healthy competition between social giants . Creating most awesome users for the consumers and greater services.This app will gain momentum but as the world is changing day by day the whole situations.On day the app is on a hype the next time it is outdated. The Social media is changing with a great pace and people do need change anyway.Bolt is a great app just by looking at screenshots,but it will have to expand and let the future decide.
WILL THIS BEAT EVERY OTHER APP ??
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