![]() It began with a new twist on the group video call idea. ![]() After Meerkat was shut down, the developers shifted their focus to Houseparty. Launched in the second half of 2016, Houseparty was made by the same team behind Meerkat, the live-streaming app which was famous for a few months in 2015 but then lost to its competitor Periscope. ![]() What is Houseparty exactly? What does it do that Zoom doesn't? And why is it such a phenomenon? And in some places, like the UK, it's now ahead of Zoom as the most popular app. On Google Play, it's currently trending at #1. Less than two weeks ago, it was the 1,450th most popular app on the App Store in India. It's being used for virtual meetings and lectures, as people work and study from home, which explains why Zoom is currently the number one app in several countries, including India, Pakistan, the US, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Italy, and Russia.īut you've probably not heard of its less professional counterpart: Houseparty. You've likely heard of Zoom already, which allows for a hundred people in a single call. As a third of the world population sits under lockdown across the world, by some estimates, one kind of app has zoomed past the rest: video calling.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |