Indian market seems to always get attention from big tech companies. Rumors say that Facebook new features are coming to the Indian market: Voice Posts, Stories archive, etc. Keep reading for more details!
Facebook new features are coming to the Indian market
Recently, a rep from Facebook has announced: “We are committed to building products with India in mind, where more than 217 million monthly users are using our platform. Some of the recent examples include profile picture guard and blood donation feature”. Following up on that statement, the company released an update for the Stories features. The three new features mostly revolve around Facebook’s camera app which is baked into its main app.
Also, these Facebook new features are rolling out to India first, with the rest of the world to follow soon after. To be specific, Facebook Stories is getting voice posts, stories archive and the ability to save photos and videos from its Camera app; while avoiding using up space on the user’s mobile phone. The first new feature is Voice Posts. It gives people a more direct and intimate way to share what they’re thinking.
It also will help people who want to share a post in a different language that’s not native to them; as it’s easier to speak than write in some cases. The second feature is that images captured using the in-app camera can now automatically upload to the Facebook cloud. This will enable users with budget devices that have low storage capacities not to have to worry about deleting older pictures to make space on their device. Each pic will save to the Cloud and users can choose to share them or not. Finally, Facebook will soon let you save your Stories. Usually, they delete themselves after 24 hours, but you’ll be able to prevent that from happening for the Stories you value most. However, the company doesn’t say if there will be a storage limit for this feature.
Why did Facebook choose the Indian market?
It makes sense that these new updates are rolling out to India first; as they appear to mostly gear towards developing markets where flagship smartphones are unaffordable. Facebook probably hopes that getting these new smartphone-owners hooked on Facebook’s camera app from the beginning will keep them interested in the ecosystem. In the end, we’ll update this article once we know a release date for these features in other countries.