After hitting 5 million downloads and #8 in the Top Charts just under a week ago, Allo is now falling fast. As of writing this, it is the 70th on the Google Store top charts, but was 86th about 7hours ago and got to 75th a few hours ago, but just few minutes ago it some somehow finds it way to #70. This probably shows that after millions of users downloading it during the initial release and hype period, that has now passed and the number of downloads has fallen dramatically.
As you can probably infer, this is most likely not good for Allo's adoption rates. Looking at my personal contacts list, I have 19 contacts who have set up an account and only 2 out of them chat, not to compare with 250+ phone numbers I have on my phone and WhatsApp Messenger. (As for Allo's sibling, Duo, I have a grand total of 0 on there before uninstalling it, and that's an Android developer.) Even out of my friends, nobody has been interested in downloading or using either, despite me being persuasive and telling them to have it installed on their devices.
What does this show? I'm not really sure. It's going to take time for Allo and Duo to penetrate the market, but I'm worried it's a case of 'too little, too late' for Google. It doesn't help that the two apps are only available on phones, and can not be used either on the web or as a desktop app. Either way, Allo was going to fall out of the Top Charts at some point, but it's somewhat disappointing to see it falling quite so fast.
My guess is that those 5million signed up users only installed it to see if it can actually take the place of other Instant Messaging App.
As you can probably infer, this is most likely not good for Allo's adoption rates. Looking at my personal contacts list, I have 19 contacts who have set up an account and only 2 out of them chat, not to compare with 250+ phone numbers I have on my phone and WhatsApp Messenger. (As for Allo's sibling, Duo, I have a grand total of 0 on there before uninstalling it, and that's an Android developer.) Even out of my friends, nobody has been interested in downloading or using either, despite me being persuasive and telling them to have it installed on their devices.
What does this show? I'm not really sure. It's going to take time for Allo and Duo to penetrate the market, but I'm worried it's a case of 'too little, too late' for Google. It doesn't help that the two apps are only available on phones, and can not be used either on the web or as a desktop app. Either way, Allo was going to fall out of the Top Charts at some point, but it's somewhat disappointing to see it falling quite so fast.
My guess is that those 5million signed up users only installed it to see if it can actually take the place of other Instant Messaging App.
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