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How much would you pay for an app that only allows users to send one word? A couple of quid? Well, investors have forked out a good deal more to fund an app called Yo, which allows users to transmit just the word "yo" and nothing else. The team has already raised $1m in funding and boasts 50,000 users who have sent a total of …
YO! Soon to be bought out by my future company...Mamma!
I believe the two apps have a synergy that could really take them to the next level. By being client focused and incentivising the deliverables of our core competencies we should be pushing the envelope of blue-sky thinking when focusing on our knowledge base.
I have the name, I have the spiel for the investors...now I'll just write the app tonight and you losers will eat my dust.
I saw this on the Guardian website, and assumed it was a joke. I'd rather hoped El Reg would have spotted it, if so, and so was waiting to see if it turned up here. I admit that's as far as my could-be-arsedness levels had reached, so I guess I bow to your keeness in actually looking at their website.
I appreciate the time and thought that you put into your recent communication to me. It was very insightful and pertinent to my current situation, and after many moments of contemplation, I believe I was able to comprehend the full depth, meaning, and context of the sage word that you sent me.
I don't know what I did for you recently that you would deem me worthy of taking the time out of your busy schedule to click twice. But thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. It is generous outpourings of time and effort such as this that make my time on this hunk of rock, speeding through near vacuum at the speed of 108,000 km/h, have meaning.
Sincerely,
My Middle Finger
ELEVEN clicks to send a text saying 'Yo'? What kind of Heath-Robinson device are you sending text messages from? Mine (a practically antique Blackberry) only requires 8, and that's including finding the address of a friend.
Anyway - I forsee a market for a counterapp that sends the word 'of' spelt backwards. I think I've patented it, so anyone that runs with the idea and makes some dosh from it can think of sending me some money.
Ah - I see Mr Ramsay beat me to it - in spirit, at least. Good luck with your venture, sir!
These are sad times we live in. I fear for the next generation, and the one after that. At some point, if there is any intelligence left someone will wake up and think that there is a big wide world if you look up from 'YO'ing your equally dopy friends. God I feel old.
Most of the reviews on the play store read much like the piss-take reviews on Amazon items:
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"I and my mates thought it was crackin' uproarious over beers -- we even took a couple of hours to code it up -- and if this jimmyjoebob can pull in millions on 'yo', why wouldn't [* insert name here *] also rake in some dosh?"
Might as well laugh, the ship's going down anyway.
the literary prowess of the target audience will have degraded to the point that there will be separate apps for each of the words in their entire vocabulary (17, by current estimate) so that they can send that particular word by selecting the right app. For the not-quite-terminally-retarded there will be a single app that offers these words in a radio-button menu.