Burner phone? There's an app for that, and it's earning millions of dollars | The Verge

Burner phone? There's an app for that, and it's earning millions of dollars | The Verge

December 18, 2014 Burner phone? There's an app for that, and it's earning millions of dollars It turns out there is a big market for a smarter, more adaptable approach to identity on your phone "It's not a one time, one and done thing." While the initial thesis was that people would want to create and quickly dispose of these numbers, over the last two years Burner's internal data has told a very different story. "It's not a one time, one and done thing," says Cohn. Instead of drug dealers looking to hide their activity, many of their customers were lawyers, cops, teachers, and taxi drivers looking to create some separation between their personal and professional lives without the hassle or expense of having a second phone. Solving that problem has become a big business for Burner. Over the last year the startup has been among the top grossing apps in the utility category for for both  Android and  iOS ,

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