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Jeez, lucky for you all you Apple users. When does the Android version drop?
Too bad there isn't a web version. Anyone know if there will be?
Update: Nevermind. I see Mark Dice has the details here.
This alone makes me consider never wasting my time on that truth social place since I don't use Apple products, never have and never will. I don't like Android either, I prefer doing most things on PC but Apple products typically don't allow as much freedom as Android or PC. I know people that swear that Apple is far superior over Android and maybe it is but I rarely use my phone or tablet anyways and some apps I use I've read won't even install on iphones.
It's just my opinion but this is a bad move, releasing an app available only to one device/platform. More than twice as many people use Android over Iphone, just a simple statistic that can easily be verified online so this decision to push out the app on just iphone for a month is not good for business. I will say maybe they're using iphone only for the 1st month before allowing the bulk of web traffic from Android and PC.
I don't use twitter, gab, or any of that garbage so it won't bother me if I never made an account on Truth Social. People are likely in for some disappointment though over something overly hyped. I hope I'm wrong but we'll see.
It's a typical marketing ploy. Here's our new thing but it's only for the Special People. Then the more that people can't have it, the more desirable it appears to be!
Google did the same thing with their social media platform. I genuinely can't even remember what it was called; they have abandoned it now anyway. I do recall though that you needed an invite from an existing member and people were fighting to get one.
Obviously, any such platform needs mass adoption if it is to be any good so I doubt that the "sorry you cannot join our exclusive club" will last very long.
There is the possibility that Trump just wanted his own platform to speak freely on. The idea of creating demand due to limiting availability doesn't always work though. I remember many years ago when I used to play MMO games online, at launch those types of games would be packed with queues but after a month or two the player base would go way down.
It's that whole first impression thing. Without pushing hard as possible, Truth Social will be no more popular than Parlor or Gab.