113 million users, so why no Yahoo Groups app?

[caubeck]

"It was reported that in August 2008 Yahoo! Groups had 113 million users, 9 million Groups, and was available in 22 languages" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Groups)

You'd think, with 113 million users at last count, there'd be at least one Yahoo groups app for the iPad, 3rd party or otherwise.

 

[gillybean]

Maybe they just use Safari for it.

 

[caubeck]

Maybe they just use Safari for it.

Well that could apply to any number of websites and webapps for which installable apps now exist. Having used Yahoo Groups on the iPhone and iPad I feel a dedicated app would make the experience much better.

 

[pooryou]

Number is probably way inflated. I'm sure the number of active, non-spam users is far, far lower.

 

[caubeck]

Number is probably way inflated. I'm sure the number of active, non-spam users is far, far lower.

True, but there are no pure spam groups for masochists as far as I know, so even a tenth of those claimed would be quite a few.

 

[santaliqueur]

Well that could apply to any number of websites and webapps for which installable apps now exist. Having used Yahoo Groups on the iPhone and iPad I feel a dedicated app would make the experience much better.

And it also applies to many more websites for which no apps exist. Also, Yahoo Groups sucks.

 

[caubeck]

And it also applies to many more websites for which no apps exist. Also, Yahoo Groups sucks.

It depends what you use it for. I've been using it for ten years and it has been extremely useful at times.

 

[The General]

wtf is yahoo groups? i have never heard of it.

 

[Yojiirill]

Keep in mind that Yahoo is now owned by Microsoft.

 

[drjsway]

Keep in mind that Yahoo is now owned by Microsoft.

No, it's not.

 

[animatedude]

Yahoo In the last 2 years killed a few products and improved many of their products (e.g. Yahoo iPhone app) but they seem to ignore Yahoo groups... Any idea if they kill that one too or they will have an app for it?

 

[Jessica Lares]

Yahoo In the last 2 years killed a few products and improved many of their products (e.g. Yahoo iPhone app) but they seem to ignore Yahoo groups... Any idea if they kill that one too or they will have an app for it?

Neither Google or Yahoo advertise their group services anymore. Message boards like this one has been the way forward for many years now. Easier to manage, and less unread messages are being sent out and delivered to non-readers and wasting data.

They can't kill it because there are too many people who still depend on these systems, but at the same time, they don't want to work on it anymore. So they're actually slowly trying to push people out with less than desirable updates.

I predict that they get rid of them within the next 5 years.