The battle to get control of messaging applications is brutal and we see that no company wants to be left behind in the race. But the battle is not only fought by the already stabilized applications among the users, but other more recent are those that pose a threat. This is what the Houseparty app for Facebook has meant and it has not been slow to announce its own app of the same style with video group chats.
Surely many of you do not even sound the Houseparty app, but in other countries is being a success. The app allows us to establish group videoconferences, in which everyone can talk as if they were sitting around the same table.
The operation of Houseparty is very simple, once the chat room is created, you get a link that is shared with the interested parties and when you click on it you will join the party. But what has really worried Facebook, is that it has reached a whopping over one million users and that requires drastic measures before it does more damage.
We imagine that it is cheaper for Facebook to develop an own app than to try to buy Houseparty, hence they have started the development of an app whose code name is Bonfire .
Bonfire would arrive officially to our devices before the end of 2017 and it would be in principle a Houseparty clone with similar functionalities.
The creators of Houseparty, the company Life On Air, launched the Meerkat app for live broadcasts some time ago, but quickly Facebook launched Facebook Live to face it and the arrival of Periscope by Twitter was the final thrust for Merkaat.
If the launch of Bonfire is true, we would be facing a new episode in which Facebook steals an idea from the company Life On Air .
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