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Snapchat Users Are Not Happy With The New Changes

After the internet, a lot of people became rich because of it, and they changed our life, for example, Google, Facebook, Wikipedia and much like this, and the internet gives us jobs.

Helena Marsh
Helena MarshEditor-in-Chief
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Snapchat Users Are Not Happy With The New Changes

After the internet, a lot of people became rich because of it, and they changed our life, for example, Google, Facebook, Wikipedia and much like this, and the internet gives us jobs. After That smartphones came many of them get ultra rich. Internet and smartphones showed that with a good idea you can be crazy rich!!. Many of developers coming with new app ideas every day, and some of them getting lucky and their life changes all the sudden.

A simple game made them rich, for example, Angry Birds, Candy Crush – King who make the Candy Crush game just sold for $5.9 billion, think about the company you are working for example, a construction or another kind, think! How much is your yearly revenue? King’s is $1.9 billion, that is an unbelievable number for a game which is a simple puzzle game. And also there were other apps that got so popular and made their creators very rich, one of them is Instagram which was sold for $1 billion to Facebook and still gaining value with 500 million users.
Another one is SnapChat, which now has millions of users, in 2015 company claims, users were sending 2 billion photos and videos per day, their content was being viewed 500 million times a day, and their estimated value is more than $10 billion. These numbers are very good for a company who came alive just in 2011.
And they make their big hit this year with their new lenses, which is great to use and people gone crazy about those lenses, especially the rainbow one, it is certain that those lenses are the result of hard work of coding.
Ok, we agree that company made a good app that people want to use, and they are already a big company making money right?! No they want more and they are doing it in a cheap way, SnapChat will sell those lenses for  99cents, and if you want the replay an old snap you need to give 99cents for it too, it is like they are trying to not an honest way but looks like it backfired, a lot of people are starting to complain about this in twitter.
We don’t get, a big company like SnapChat trying to collect money from the users like this, if they want to grow more in the future they need to stop thinking small and be respectful to their users, try to find other ways to earn money…

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Helena Marsh

Helena Marsh

Editor-in-Chief

Helena Marsh is the Editor-in-Chief at TrendinTech, where she leads editorial strategy and oversees coverage across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise technology. With more than a decade in technology journalism on both sides of the Atlantic, she previously served as a senior editor at Wired UK and covered the technology sector for The Guardian, following the rise of the big platforms, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the regulatory push from Brussels and Washington. Helena holds an MA in Journalism from City, University of London and is a regular speaker at Web Summit in Lisbon and CES in Las Vegas. She believes technology reporting should be rigorous and plainly written, so readers understand what actually changes for them rather than what a company's announcement promises.

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