I think Snap is doing the best pure "Social Media" experience of any service right now. Whether or not that can really be monetized without becoming another Facebook is a different story.
except snapchat has been effectively locking out and leading on android users. they're making a whole new app just to get some android users back because instagram is absolutely murdering them
Snapchat has been the number 1 social media app in US, UK, Canada and France for most of this year (above Facebook app and Instagram). Whoever says Instagram is murdering it is getting his facts wrong.
When Instagram/Facebook quotes its numbers, they are worldwide user counts. Snapchat is mainly only used in US, UK, Canada, France, Germany which have around 600 million people. This compared to India, SE Asia, Brazil, Africa where Snapchat is virtually non-existant. Users in developed countries are 10 times more valuable based on ad dollars. Hence, I find the comparison of raw user numbers to be an unfair comparison.
Quality of the pictures. It basically takes a screenshot of the camera preview, instead of actually taking a picture. Also often bugs, laggy interface etc., which is bad when you have one attempt to view a picture or message..
I've found that my experience with the android app has improved a lot since snapchat's earlier days. The app used to be quite buggy which may account for some "ptsd", but I haven't had any problems in quite a while.
