{"id":18050,"date":"2020-04-11T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T20:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/facebook-ships-an-experimental-app-for-couples.html"},"modified":"2020-04-11T20:28:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T20:28:57","slug":"facebook-ships-an-experimental-app-for-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-ships-an-experimental-app-for-couples.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook ships an experimental app for couples"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, Facebook <\/a> quietly released a new app for couples. Called Tuned<\/a>, the new release is a multimedia messaging app designed to help significant others communicate.<\/p>\n

The app is available for download in the U.S. and Canada, app analytics firm Sensor Tower tells us. Tuned was developed and released by Facebook\u2019s <\/a> New Product Experimentation (NPE) team. The division is \u2014 as the name suggests \u2014 very experimental and thus a bit quicker to pull the plug on projects if they don\u2019t show traction.<\/p>\n

The Tuned app arrives during a very interesting time for couples. Couples that live together are spending every waking moment in each other\u2019s presence in the midst of quarantine and could probably never have less of a need for an app like this. For couples that don\u2019t live together, there\u2019s more of an appeal, as people are emboldened to build out digital toolsets to stay close with their partners during an unprecedented time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The app is by all means just a messaging app that\u2019s more focused on pushing updates and stickers to a singular person. Users can also integrate the app with Spotify <\/a> to share songs, or use dedicated widgets to share how they\u2019re feeling or what they\u2019re up to. The company refers to the app\u2019s feed as \u201cscrapbook-style.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not integrated with the company\u2019s dating platform, Facebook Dating; in fact, the most interesting quality of the app is the sheer lack of Facebook tie-ins.<\/p>\n

For years, Messenger <\/a> was the testing bed for Facebook\u2019s social curiosities, but Messenger became too important and users weren\u2019t responding positively to constantly seeing nominal changes in an app they frequently used. The issue is Facebook doesn\u2019t have a default experimentation app anymore, and so these NPE team releases kind of force Facebook to get by with less user data and make judgment calls on how fast functionality can develop when starting from a standstill. It\u2019s unclear how successfully this strategy is progressing. NPE Team\u2019s only other release that\u2019s still available, a Pinterest <\/a> competitor named Hobbi<\/a>, was released two months ago and has only received one review on the App Store \u2014 a one-star review.<\/p>\n

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