Swarm today officially login to iOS and Android platform

Absrtact: After being announced two weeks, Foursquare's new Check-in application swarm today officially logged on to iOS and Android platforms. Foursquare, who started out as a sign of attendance, is trying to turn its bloated main application into a few separate lightweight applications, like Facebook, to

After being declared two weeks, Foursquare's new Check-in application swarm today officially logged on to iOS and Android platforms. Foursquare, who started out by signing in, is trying to turn its bloated main application into a few separate lightweight applications, as Facebook does, to meet the needs of users in the mobile age.

Swarm is the product of this strategy, and the new app will be independent of the check-in and social elements of the Foursquare main program, becoming a complementary tool, like Facebook Messenger to Facebook.

Although as a check-in tool, but swarm to the "check-in" element to the minimum. If you want, swarm can automatically update the location information for you without opening the application, turn off this function and simply slide the avatar on the application homepage.

The accuracy of this passive geo-information-sharing form, known as neighborhood sharing, is controlled to the point that Foursquare thinks it is just right, and does not allow a good friend to know exactly where you are or to provide enough information for you to plan an occasional party.

The plan is another swarm. To change the way users sign in, in the nearby plans interface, users can publish an activity plan through the built-in Information window, which can be found by all the users linked together, and they can also participate in the discussion through this information window.

Unlike the original, Swarm completely abandoned the game elements in the Foursquare check-in mechanism, before badges and credits were designed to increase user participation in the form of rewards. Foursuqare is in a very bold form to downplay the concept of "check-in" by Swarm The independent application of this special division check-in. This is because with the development of smartphone positioning mechanism and the full of data, Foursquare is no longer dependent on users to manually upload geographic information as before.

In an interview with The Verge, CEO Dannis Crowley said that in the initial stages of the redesign of the company's products, they thought of creating a check-in service that did not need to be signed in. Foursquare will collect 6 billion sign-in information using its "Pilgrim" engine to draw a global map containing 60 million hotspots, Foursquare can automatically update its database by combining the geographic information uploaded by the smartphone with the map.

After stripping out the check-in and social elements, a new version of Foursquare's main program will be released this summer, with the new version focusing on the local service discovery and exploration that rivals Yelp.