Comment by bitmapbrother

9 years ago

I wonder how many people thought app.net was a Microsoft product.

Always felt like a case where they bought the domain name for another reason then one day decided to build a twitter clone.

Branding wise is made absolutely no sense.

I thought it's some kind of app store for android phones. Not sure why I made this association. But I guess their name might be one of the reasons of failure. It's simple and short, but doesn't really tell anything about the product.

Any association with the SharePoint people could and should doom a social network product. Or any product.