by alaskamiller on 6/17/14, 5:20 PM
Old is remembering it as sound blaster, young is remembering it as facebook.
So begins the gap.
by 0x0 on 6/17/14, 6:23 PM
What's the point of withholding from non-US appstores?
Isn't it MORE WORK to selectively publish to specific appstores instead of just leaving the "all countries" checkbox checked in iTunesConnect?
So tired of announcement after announcement from fb just leading to blank pages on my devices.
by Sommer717 on 6/17/14, 6:17 PM
The premise seems really intriguing, essentially Snapchat with an incentive to keep the interaction going. But Facebook seems to be deliberately hindering their own viral growth, because I can't download the app:
http://i.imgur.com/UAlGmV9.png - presumably Europe doesn't matter?
by bronzewolf on 6/17/14, 6:26 PM
I think I've crashed in the iOS version of the app no less than 15 times in the brief time I've been playing with it. The app is pretty, but all the pretty in the world doesn't matter if it's not functional.
by gkoberger on 6/17/14, 6:35 PM
Interesting that they released this, having just shuttered their very similar app Poke 2 months ago.
The big difference? Slingshot doesn't use the Facebook branding. That's very telling.
by wideroots on 6/17/14, 6:45 PM
Very interesting idea to make people contribute more contents...but I'm not too sure how this would change or contribute to the existing paradigm of mobile conversations.
by uptown on 6/17/14, 6:19 PM
I don't blame apps or app-makers for people's choices and actions, but this seems like the perfect app to cause texting while driving even if the recipient had no intention of doing-so. Requiring a "recipient" to send a message in order to receive a pending message sounds like it'd be more-likely to create that scenario.
