Not really, it seems just like any other fad. The technology involved has been around for a while, and nobody paid much attention to it before.
I'd be interested to see articles detailing technical difficulties that they may have overcome, but I've seen way too many articles just saying "Pokemon GO now has more X than Y".
You can discount it as a fad but it's also a resurgence of Pokemania. People who grew up catching Pokemon in elementary school are doing it all over again, along with a new generation of kids.
Whether you like it or not, it's become an overnight GLOBAL phenomenon and a unique one at that.
Not really, no, because I had already been an Ingress player. So the wow-factor of walking around to various spots for a geo-based-AR game is like 3-years-old.
On the contrary I think it's an extremely interesting phenomena, I just find the statements that it has more downloads than instagram, more daily users than, more miles walked then fitbit etc... stupid.
It is not comparable to any of these, the metrics do not contribute to the conversation and these titles are nothing but clickbait.
I'd be interested to see articles detailing technical difficulties that they may have overcome, but I've seen way too many articles just saying "Pokemon GO now has more X than Y".