Snapchat reaches a billion downloads on Android

Snapchat reaches a billion downloads on Android 1

Snapchat’s fortunes could also be turning round. Okay, so the glasses thought was a bust, and the corporate’s inventory has spent the final 12 months under even the IPO value, however we millenials are actually into making ourselves appear to be terrifying dog-human chimeras, for some purpose, and we have pushed the app to over a billion installs on the Play Store. (Though the platform’s ubiquitous use amongst grownup fashions is extra prone to clarify these numbers: intercourse sells.)

Snapchat reaches a billion downloads on Android 2

Back in 2017, it appeared like Snapchat was on the highway to doom after the corporate reported spending an astronomical $2.3 billion to rake in a mere $149 million. That is not normally the type of return a firm (or its traders) likes to see. But it is 2019 and Snapchat remains to be going robust, most likely in no small half on account of one facet of the corporate’s distinctive monetization technique: “Premium Snapchat” subscriptions can be found for content-creating accounts as a means for grownup fashions to promote pornographic content material to followers.

For fairly a very long time, the Android app’s rubbish efficiency, paired with the CEO’s lively indifference to the platform, meant you had a verifiably Bad Time utilizing the app on even the quickest Pixel or Galaxy S cellphone. But, the app noticed a profitable (if years late) redesign that has fastened lots of its points on the platform, offering a respectable sufficient expertise that the app’s ranking now sits round 4.1 stars on the Play Store. With now 1,000,000,000+ installs, the app joins a very small membership of wildly profitable apps to interrupt the 9-digit barrier. For a level of comparability, Google Calendar solely simply crossed that mark itself.

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