Microsoft has announced to remove a number of Snapchat-style features from its skype messenger platform. After the update made on skype in June 2017, the platform faces criticism from its users who named the update as the worst update ever.
Microsoft said it admits that the app new features truly got in the way of the app’s core uses which is: messaging and making phone calls. Most features on the updates simply didn’t tag along with most of its users, it said.
The new features are said to reduce the navigation options from five to three by removing the highlights and camera buttons.
When the updates were announced in June 2017, Microsoft told BBC: “We know this was a big change and we welcome feedback along the way”.
The new layout of the Skype app
In a statement, Microsoft also said “We are confident that as we continue to listen to users provide updates to the app… we’ll be able to keep improving the experience”. And now, Skype design director Peter Skillman written in a blog post: “This past year we explored some design changes and heard from customers that we overcomplicated some of our core scenarios.”
Skype was released in 2003 and was bought by Microsoft in 2011. But right now, Instagram, Facebook’s Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Snapchat all provide similar features, by copying the idea from one another.
It was revealed the Messenger and Instagram incorporate the “stories” features from Snapchat.
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