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"So if life isn't fair -- it's not about working harder, it's about working the system." --Evan Spiegel, The son of successful lawyers, Spiegel grew up in a world of wealth, power, and privilege.

This is pretty much explains the behavior of "The One Percent" and mega-corps.

I hope all of snapchat's employees are equally as rich. Otherwise they just lost out on a huge, life-altering windfall due to some kind insane arrogance. Or I'm very wrong, FB comes back with a bigger offer and Spiegel takes it. I mean, it's just a screenshot/video sharing app with a little twist. A twist that can be undone by a software-update making it impossible to prevent the device from saving it. Did you know Android-KitKat comes with ScreenRecording? I wonder how snapchat deals with that.

EDIT: Ives's answer about SecureContent flag sounds good. Now I wonder about the future Custom ROMs...

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It is already impossible to prevent saving the image. Snapchat uesrs don't seem to care about that for the most part. What it does is create a whole new class of worthwhile photos. By sending via snapchat you are saying "this is just a throwaway image I wanted to send for a quick chuckle. No big deal." Whether the person takes the time/effort to save that throwaway image isn't really of any concern.

That's how I see it being used anyway. It's not being used with the expectation that there is literally no chance of the image being saved anywhere.

There's a simple SecureContent (or something like that) flag that can be set by developers; this disables the screen recording.

Yep. Word just got around today that FB's feeling alienated and there aren't any other balls in the court. Evan's too arrogant to accept a lower offer.

Worst part is that everyone's feeling awkwardly trapped. I even feel bad complaining - damn golden handcuffs.

Apple creates an integrated snapchat. Removes snapchat from the apple store. It's not like they havent done that to other popular apps that they have the ability to replicate (google maps)

Except Google Maps is still on the App Store.

For example, Apple has banned comics from being sold through Comixology that they themselves sell in their store.

My point still stands that Apple initially removed it when they released Apple Maps. Since messaging is part of Apple's core experience, it's very likely that they'll eventually update their iMessage app.

Snapchat is not unique. In fact, there are far bigger and more popular messaging apps around the world. They just dont get the attention that SnapChat does because it happens to be in California and in the US. http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/10/18/best-mobile-messaging-...

Your point is totally false. Apple never removed Google Maps from the App Store.

Apple changed an Apple app to use Apple data instead of Google Data, there was no removal of a Google app because there was no Google app to remove.

Sorry. I hope things work out somehow for you later.

(P.S. You might consider posting this kind of stuff anonymously, as it took me less than 5mins to figure out who you are in real life... if that's a concern for you.)

Yeah, delete your account @ now... just some friendly advice.

orleton what up

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