Rivalry in Messaging . WhatsApp v/s Hike
WhatsApp , the most famous social media messaging app which has its statistics increasing at a very rapid rate globally . It almost became like a default app like google apps , contacts.
Whatsapp became dominant force in the world , It is used as main platform for communicating news or other stories in many countries .
Usage :
When compared to facebook , one of the pioneers of social media whatsapp users have increased from 200 to 700 million in 21 months while facebook reached it in 25 months .
It has went from 200 million Apr 2013 to 1500 million in June 2017.
In India , its users have increased from 20million in Aug 2013 to 200 million in Feb 2017.
Hike
Hike is our country’s first social and technology company.It’s a proud product .Hike users can send each other graphical stickers , emoticons, images, videos, audios, files, voice messages, contacts and user location.
Usage :
Launched on 12 December 2012, Hike attained 15 million users in February 2014 .Over the next few months, the application introduced free text messaging across India, chat themes, updated stickers, hidden chats and revamped user interface. In August 2014, Hike reached 35 million users.
Hike is having more features than WhatsApp.
But why we prefer whatsapp over Hike ?
Whatsapp is simple and faster . Our friends are more active on whatsapp ,the reason is whatsapp has got a good promotion from the mouth of people. But Hike is still behind in this field. Specially it slow operating speed than whatsapp. And hike has the features which whatsapp . When I installed hike , I found a few friends but not my close friends to chat on it . Let’s discuss some more reasons for it .
We can whatsapp in our pc also by using whatsapp web and video call feature is very easy and best with a very good voice quality . Its interface is very clean when compared to a bit chunky hike messenger interface . Whatsapp has more standard emojis than hike .
Hike has many good features .
Hike provides awesome stickers which are a lot more fun compared to the standard emoticons. The latest updates of hike have stickers in Indian Languages which make our chat even more fun.
To all those people who want to hide their chats from their friends, this feature is built especially for you.
Hike has a special feature where we can hide our chat from our friends :p .
No more text messaging packs as hike provides the users with 100 free messages per month to other non-hike users.
The recent update has added more themes to Hike.
Hike has conference call upto 100 people, a feature missing from WhatsApp.
Hike has an AI assistant called Natasha. You can chat with her like she is a human. WhatsApp doesn’t have any assistant.
And from the developers words , it’s a product made with love in India.
Let’s hope it hits more people in India than whatsapp in future !!
