Facebook is focused on video, everything that happens with this format interests it, be it a platform where users upload their videos, live broadcasts from a mobile phone or a computer ... Now the interest has focused on a new application for mobile devices, an application that would allow group calls.
As reported by the guys from The Verge, again the idea has not come from the thinking heads that Mark Zuckerberg has hired, but this time the victim was the Houseparty application, a company of the creators of the Meerkat application, one of the pioneers in the live broadcast industry that went under with the launch of Periscope and later with Facebook Live.
At the moment the employees who have had access to the new application, which for now are called Bonfire, affirm that it is an exact copy of the application that they have copied, or we could say in which it has been inspired. No, we will say that it has been copied one more time. The operation of the application is very simple, since instead of establishing a chat with friends by pressing One button can establish a video call, to which all the users that we invite to it can join.
In The Verge they state that the launch of this application is scheduled for autumn, but presumably you will have to change the interface if you do not want to be a blatant copy of Houseparty, an application that has begun to become fashionable in the United States and that is growing by leaps and bounds and that like Meerkat will see how after Launch of Bonfire by Facebook, the service will begin to be discontinued as often as before.
It is a pity that Facebook is dedicated to copying and copying and copying everything that it likes of other smaller applications or services, which over time leads to closure since users prefer to use this option integrated into other platforms they use more often, such as Facebook. Although if it is not finally integrated into the application and launched independently, the success it may have may be limited. Time will tell.