Everything You Want to Know About the ‘Yo’ App Everyone Is Talking About

23 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone in Tech/Sci, Very Cool

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There now officially is an app for everything – even laziness. The new app, called “Yo”, does one thing: sends a “Yo” to a contact. Nothing else.

Where do we sign up?

The iOS and Android app does seem a little one-dimensional (and by “a little”, we mean “a lot”), but it’s actually garnered quite a following in such a short time; so what makes it so desirable?

The app’s developers note that sending the same message using WhatsApp, Facebook or SnapChat would take 11 taps.

A stupid, but fair-point, and Forbes’ Anthony Wing Kosner believes that there’s a lot of potential with it’s simplicity.

Consider the meaning of a ‘yo’ with a map location, with a web address, with a song or a YouTube video? The ability to shout out the immediate context is what Twitter is supposed to be for, but who wants to bother crafting 140 characters anymore?

Check out Steven Colbert’s review of the Yo app and responses below:

Read more about YoApp on The Week.

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