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TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram

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298 points elorant | 4 comments | 19 Nov 19 14:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.543s | source
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m12k ◴[19 Nov 19 15:00 UTC] No.21573454[source]▶
"It is the third most-downloaded app outside of gaming this year. Numbers one and two are WhatsApp and Messenger, while four and five are the Facebook app and Instagram."

Facebook owns 4/5 of the most downloaded apps - just let that sink in for a minute. This space needs competition pretty badly.

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bertil ◴[19 Nov 19 15:06 UTC] No.21573514[source]▶
This is less because Facebook is big and more because it’s the largest tech company without an OS. More people use Google or Apple’s native Mail client, browser, calendar.
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1. yitianjian ◴[19 Nov 19 15:45 UTC] No.21574075[source]▶
I would hardly consider Amazon as having an OS - but having actual decent mobile website experience and being a service that requires less use than social media probably helps
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2. s_y_n_t_a_x ◴[19 Nov 19 15:51 UTC] No.21574157[source]▶
Amazon sells their own devices with their own version of Android with their own app store. I would consider that their own OS.
3. toast0 ◴[19 Nov 19 16:31 UTC] No.21574797[source]▶
Amazon's main apps are probably the store app and the Kindle app. The store app isn't very useful unless you have the ability to pay over the internet and the ability to have packages delivered; you probably shouldn't be in a country subject to US trade sanctions either.

The Kindle app may not require ability to pay via the internet, but it helps. There's also a big step to wanting to read.

Neither of these apps are going to hit the numbers that mostly non paid communications apps will hit, because of the difference in markets.

4. bertil ◴[19 Nov 19 17:54 UTC] No.21575907[source]▶
I would agree with you although I’m not sure what this has to do with my original comment.

On Amazon’s scale, there’s a very common mistake made by people in the 11 countries where Amazon delivers (out of a possible 192): they don’t realise that Amazon is actually hardly available internationally. They can’t have a billion users because they don’t serve countries with more than 800M inhabitants.

AWS is a different story but it’s B2B. And I think that Amazon (Prime) Video is available more widely but Amazon, for all it’s Revenue and Market share isn’t a billion-user company.