Yap Voicemail
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Yap Voicemail was the consumer voicemail-to-text app from Yap Inc., offered as an iOS application in private beta. It transcribed users' voicemails into text, similar to Google Voice. The service was discontinued on October 20, 2011, weeks after Amazon quietly acquired Yap.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Product or service closed
Yap discontinued its voicemail-transcription service on 20 October 2011.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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