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TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram

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298 points elorant | 1 comments | 19 Nov 19 14:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | 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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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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1. 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.