Bad response to Swarm

Splitting of Foursquare and Swarm raised up a lot of issues. By such, Swarm receives a lot of bad responses.

Firstly, Swarm changes a lot of recognizable features of foursquare. Addictive mayorships earning features and badges collecting according check-in are gone now. Users’ effort on using the app or features are gone now.

Besides, matter of battery life are raised up. With two such big apps operating, it shorten the battery life of any phones. Both apps need Wi-Fi and location services functions on to operate. In turn, most users choose to abandon one of the apps.

In short, it takes time for the users to accept the new Swarm.

By Chin Kar Seng

Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/07/30/336531811/some-loyal-foursquare-users-are-checking-out-after-swarm-spinoff