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I don't get the comparison to Snap/Insta Stories. Isn't the whole point of those that you add to them over 24 hours and they disappear? This just creates little videos/gifs you can share on other social networks.

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Both those apps have some tools in their camera that make it easy to do text/scribbles/filters on photos and video. Some stuff like timestamps and speed are even proof-like because "everyone" knows how the app works so it isn't something you could easily fake without photoshopping.

If you've been on reddit lately you'll know how popular pictures of text are.

True but those tools have nothing to do with the 'story' concept. The iOS camera already does filters and markup of text/scribbles. I just find it odd that all the tech press are comparing it to something it's not trying to compete with.

So... Vine?

Whatever happened to Vine?

It was shutdown.

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