Tango announced today that it has surpassed 100 million registered users. To celebrate, the company is also launching a revamped version of its mobile apps, which finally bring full iPad support for iOS and a revamped design. The iPhone version has also added photo editing capabilities, powered by New York City’s Aviary.
“It’s a little bit like boiling water, you see it coming for a while,” said Tango chief technology officer Eric Setton in an interview with VentureBeat, referring to the company’s approach to 100 million users. “It’s also a great way to get more engineers into the company,” he added.
The company started out with a cross-platform video chat app for iPhone and Android, but it has since added more platforms, like Windows Phone and Windows PCs, as well as just about every messaging media you can imagine. Back in November Tango added Instagram-like photo filters and cute animal avatars.
The new app finally offers an iPad-optimized experience, which means Tango can finally take full advantage of the tablet’s bigger screen. Setton noted that iPad users with sufficient Internet speeds will have a higher level of video chat quality than other users. When it comes to Android apps, he said that Tango already scales well to most of them, though the company is considering a fully optimized Android slate version if there’s enough demand.
Setton has long dreamed of simply displaying the video during a call, without any other on-screen distractions, something that the new app finally makes possible. Tango has also added hundreds of new filters, animations and avatars, as well as a complete version of Othello within the app. The iPhone photo editing suite offers just about every editing tool you’d need, and it’ll eventually make its way to Android.
The company isn’t slowing down with its crazy two-week development cycle, Setton said:
“We’ve kind of managed to work this into the brain of every engineer working here, they’re used to the cycle, even at 120 people. The company keeps delivering on a number of things in a short time frame — it’s part of our culture, part of the DNA, and I don’t see that going away any time soon.”
Data source: Medcity News (Devindra Hardawar,)
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Category: Social Networking
Updated: Mar 07, 2013
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Category: Social Networking
Updated: Mar 07, 2013
Version: 2.7.39546
Size: 40.6 MB
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