There’s this viral app called Carrier Pidge, and with all due respect to its creator, it’s just a paint job on a kind of app that already existed. Same with another, similar new app, Roost.
What these apps do is they send messages on a delay, with actual geography taken into account so that messages between longer distances take longer. Slowly, a pen pal app, has been doing this since the 20-teens.
But these new apps are getting approving write-ups because, unlike Slowly, they have cute gimmicks. Specifically, they have little simulated animals in them—homing pigeons in the case of Carrier Pidge, and a whole menagerie including pigeons in the…
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