Article 5DBRM Byte, Vine’s successor, has been purchased by another TikTok clone

Byte, Vine’s successor, has been purchased by another TikTok clone

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Jacob Kastrenakes
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Screen_Shot_2020_01_24_at_4.35.56_PM.0.p Image: Byte

Byte, a TikTok competitor, has been purchased by Clash, another TikTok competitor. It sounds as though Clash may be merged into Byte, but the details are vague for the time being. Clash's website now directs visitors to download Byte, and the company says Clash won't be available on the iOS App Store for an extended period."

Clash co-founder Brendon McNerney told The New York Times that the two apps will be released together as one product" within a few months.

The market for apps that let you create and post videos from your phone has become extremely saturated. There are many competitors with similar (or better) feature sets, and far more distribution," Byte creator Dom Hofmann, who was previously a co-founder of the video app Vine,...

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