Path Talk - Smart, Private Messaging

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@davemorin can we assume TalkTo will get folded into Path Talk? I stepped away from Path but this would be an offering to bring me and probably many others back. Hope this move works out.

@davemorin Were there any specific things you learned from Path Messaging/Path 3 that drove you to break Talk out into its own app? Is part of the draw the ability to open APIs to Talk specifically without exposing the rest of Path to a developer community? I also wonder if Talk will also compete with Layer at some point in the future if both pursue the messaging platform opportunity that Apple's left wide open by not exposing an API for iMessages.

Nothing really seems new or particularly unique here. In fact it is nearly identical to every other messaging app out there. Why not focus on only business texting @davemorin?

@rrhoover @mrakshaypatel yes, in our next release of Talk, the TalkTo Service will be completely integrated into Path Talk as a native service. We will then close down TalkTo as a standalone app. Right now the design has "Places" as an additional tab next to "People" with a pretty cool UI we are excited about. Your messages with Places will live right in the Chat list along with People and Groups you are talking to. Additionally (and one of the things I'm most excited about) by using the "Talk to..." field in our top nav, you will be able to use the typeahead to auto complete on people, groups, and nearby places. It is going to be a lot of fun. We are so excited about putting this superpower in peoples hands.

I wonder how much the ambient status feature affects my battery, I turned on all the possible statuses

@syedaliahmed there is nothing new under the sun. We believe that Ambient Status is a new and interesting take on Status. We also have 4 million daily active users, so for them this means that messaging is much easier to access than being buried in a tab in our main app. Business Messaging is the core differentiator we are focused on for new users indeed.

@imkevinxu it should not affect your battery. The Ambient Algorithm is optimized for efficient battery consumption. On the iPhone 5S the M7 chip enables us to be even more efficient.

@davemorin love the idea of ambient statuses, I'd in fact say that as a standalone app would possible be much better. Path is incredibly successful as I've always been envious if your amazing growth, but I've always had this feeling that it was really cluttered. A standalone messaging app seems to be a move in the right direction onwards deconstructing the app (similar to what Facebook is doing) but this again just seems to be trying to do too much. Either way wish you all the best with this launch and looking forward to seeing how texting businesses will work out, cheers!

@zackshapiro probably the best thoughts on the lessons learned and reasons for Multi App are captured here: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/pat...