Kik Messenger App Now has 30 Million Users
Messaging app Kik announced the launch of Kik Messenger 6.0 for iPhone and Android. The app itself for the most part looks the same. However, conventional media attachments and pasting in URLS in favor of letting you embed YouTube videos, images from the web, and doodles using downloadable “Cards.”
According to kik.com 30 million people have downloaded Kik, and 100,000 people have signed up each day for the last several months. While CEO and Founder Ted Livingston declined to provide daily or monthly usage numbers, he made clear that the battle for messaging in the United States is only between Kik and WhatsApp. These two apps are giving SMS a run for the money.
Additionally. this is what the CEO of Kik has to say about HTML5:
Livingston says. “Scrolling sucks, and there are no transitions. It’s obvious [HTML 5 apps] are websites and not apps.” Companies like Facebook and Tumblr recently rebuilt their apps to avoid using HTML 5, but Kik instead decided to spend the last year and a half rewriting HTML 5 libraries and tools to make the Cards function as if they were native apps. “The end result is indistinguishable from native,” he says, but doesn’t screw up the attractive Kik chat experience with colors, wallpapers, status updates, and other plug-ins. And since the Cards are written on the web, Kik can add new ones to its library of Cards at any time — and it intends to. “We can build out hundreds of cards that the user can go in and add,” he says. “It’s going to keep us ahead of our competitors.“
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