Clubhouse's staggered rollout is detrimental and risking its momentum

Clubhouse might be able to grow the number of daily active users now that its service is open to Android phones, but experts think the staggered rollout will affect the overall success of the platform. The voice-only chatting social media platform announced on May 21 its global rollout to Android users, but similar to iOS users, it will be on an invite-only basis. You’ll also be able to use Clubhouse only on Android 8.0 and above, though that shouldn’t be an issue for any of the best Android phones. The platform launched in 2020 and, at the time, was only accessible to iPhone users. The app became so popular that several social media platforms released features that imitated Clubhouse. Alex Kantrowitz, the writer for the Big Technology newsletter, said in an interview that while it’s common for many app developers to release on one platform first, in the case of Clubhouse, the move was “especially detrimental.” Kantrowitz explained that Clubhouse is the type of social media platform where conversations will happen all the time. Still, by being so delayed in its rollout to Android users, they’ve missed out on some of the more interesting conversations that have already happened, which…
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