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I never claimed to be impartial. I use both apps and have been following them closely. I think Periscope will win some portion of the market, and Meerkat another. Saying that it's screwed right now, while there's still so much excited activity, is still bunk.

Almost every app's growth slows after a viral launch. In a few days we'll see Periscope's growth slowing as well. That doesn't mean they all die.

"Slow growth" is not the same as negative growth.

There are more people downloading the app than deleting it. That is still positive growth.

Falling down in the app-store rankings two days after launch is a poor metric to use to determine the future of a company with years of burn still in the bank.

See relevant image of startup lifecycle: http://www.vccafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/startup-cur...

you can't really call it a trend with just accounting three days worth of data.