Samsung’s ChatOn messaging service being phased out

If you've owned a recent Samsung device, you've probably seen their instant messaging client ChatOn somewhere on the device. ChatOn was Samsung's in-house competition to apps like WhatsApp that came preloaded on nearly every Samsung smartphone.

Unfortunately, it turns out that just being preloaded on devices wasn't enough to strike up users, and Samsung has announced that they'll be gradually turning off the service around the world. Since profits have been constantly declining this year, Samsung's management is looking to focus on successful key areas of their business while chopping off the services that aren't doing well. Samsung's music and video hub closed earlier this year, and now you can throw ChatOn to that pile.

The bright side to this situation is that Samsung will probably replace ChatOn with some other more efficient service. After their music and video hubs were closed, they were replaced by Milk Music and now Milk Video. While there's nothing official coming to fill ChatOn's shoes, it wouldn't surprise me to see something else similar make its way onto the Galaxy S 6 next year.

source: The Verge

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