apple drives further into facebook snap territory with video app
Last Updated : GMT 06:49:16
Arab Today, arab today
Arab Today, arab today
Last Updated : GMT 06:49:16
Arab Today, arab today

Apple drives further into Facebook, Snap territory with video app

Arab Today, arab today

Arab Today, arab today Apple drives further into Facebook, Snap territory with video app

An intro to Clips, a new iOS app for making and sharing fun videos
San Francisco - Arab Today

With the release of a new video app called Clips, Apple Inc. is inching one step closer to fully engaging in the messaging world, where its huge base of iPhone users could help it compete with Snap Inc’s Snapchat and Facebook Inc’s Messenger.
Clips, which will hit Apple’s App Store in April, lets customers take videos and add animated captions and titles, complete with colorful emoji symbols. The app also makes it possible to stitch together multiple video clips and add speech bubbles and filters.
The functions closely resemble those that drive Snap’s wildly popular Stories feature. With Stories, Snap users string together photos and videos, embellish them and then post them to their feeds.
Apple’s new Clips lets users post their video to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and more. But if users post them to Apple’s own Messages app, Apple will recommend whom to share it with based on which friends are in the videos and whom the user frequently contacts — the kind of predictive social features Facebook excels at.
Apple has a huge number of users for Messages, the flagship app for short notes that is built into the iPhone’s iOS 10 software. Apple does not say how many people use the app, but it does say that there more than 1 billion iOS devices on the market and that 79 percent of them run iOS 10.
Apple also says that Messages is the most commonly used app on iOS devices, giving the company potentially up to 800 million users for its latest messaging platform. Snap, by contrast, has 161 million daily active users. While Apple’s Clips competitor will technically be a separate app from Messages, it will be tied closely to it for the ability share Clips videos with other Apple users.
Facebook has more than 1 billion users for both Messenger, which was split off from the main Facebook service in 2014, and for WhatsApp, which it acquired for $19 billion the same year.
Apple has been steadily matching the features of Facebook’s Messenger. But Apple is also walking a fine line with other messaging players, cooperating with them often as it competes with them. For example, it has opened up the iPhone’s dialer app, long closed off to developers, so that iPhone users could place and receive Skype and WhatsApp calls through the device’s native interface.
Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft Corp. have been scrambling to get into the game, too. Google has more than a half dozen messaging apps, including Allo, its latest. Microsoft has tried to integrate chat into its Skype app, and Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is a popular tool for business notes.
But tech giants obsess over messaging because it is where users are headed, according to analyst firm Gartner. Between 2015 and 2016, the percentage of US and UK smartphone owners who used social media apps dropped from 85 percent to 83 percent while messaging apps jumped from 68 percent to 71 percent, a trend Gartner expects will continue.

Source: Arab News

arabstoday
arabstoday

Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

apple drives further into facebook snap territory with video app apple drives further into facebook snap territory with video app

 



Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

apple drives further into facebook snap territory with video app apple drives further into facebook snap territory with video app

 



GMT 14:58 2017 Tuesday ,28 February

Humans spark most US wildfires

GMT 00:49 2017 Tuesday ,28 February

New vehicle scanner to ease Oman border rush

GMT 10:50 2018 Monday ,08 January

L'anza unveils sprayable styling paste Airpaste

GMT 16:40 2012 Monday ,20 February

New Ferrari Enzo

GMT 13:47 2013 Friday ,22 March

FM: Greece takeover process of Cypriot banks

GMT 19:13 2017 Monday ,16 October

6 wounded in USA oil rig blaze near New Orleans

GMT 16:34 2016 Sunday ,25 September

Pakistani air force jet crashes, killing pilot

GMT 20:53 2017 Wednesday ,14 June

Media council abandon complaint against writer

GMT 20:59 2017 Tuesday ,31 October

IMF official says Egypt's economy

GMT 15:19 2017 Wednesday ,29 November

Five things to watch out for in 2018

GMT 02:04 2017 Saturday ,18 November

To solve N.Ireland border issue

GMT 03:18 2017 Sunday ,05 November

Curva rebrands as FROW Magazine

GMT 22:16 2018 Wednesday ,17 January

GCC Chief meets UN Envoy to Yemen

GMT 13:05 2011 Thursday ,23 June

Irish Derby to be bigger and exciting
Arab Today, arab today
 
 Arab Today Facebook,arab today facebook  Arab Today Twitter,arab today twitter Arab Today Rss,arab today rss  Arab Today Youtube,arab today youtube  Arab Today Youtube,arab today youtube

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2025 ©

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2025 ©

arabstoday arabstoday arabstoday arabstoday
arabstoday arabstoday arabstoday
arabstoday
بناية النخيل - رأس النبع _ خلف السفارة الفرنسية _بيروت - لبنان
arabstoday, Arabstoday, Arabstoday