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Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

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Re: Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

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Post by jjude »

scarface74 wrote: post #15
george_perez wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can almost 100% say that this is never coming to Android. Casey Liss is one of the co-hosts of Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) and they are Apple users through and through. Marco Arment, maker of the great Overcast podcast client, is also a co-host alongside John Siracusa of Mac OS X/Ars reviews fame. TL;DR No this is not coming to Android.

Well Marco did outsource porting Instapaper to Android before he sold it... https://marco.org/2012/06/06/instapaper-for-android But I doubt he would do the same for Overcast.

Just yesterday was searching on the Google Play Store if there is an Android version of Overcast. There is no decent podcast app that has this particular feature of Overcast - cutting off silence.

Re: Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

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Post by starik36 »

I would like to buy this app but having hard time understanding why it requires iOS 12.1 or later. What new API call had to be in the app to justify this limitation?

I am on iOS 12.0.1 and plan on remaining there for the foreseeable future because I like my jailbreak.

Re: Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

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Post by teddyh »

jwr wrote: post #18
davidcollantes wrote: post #14

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I disagree. It bugs me not to have an image of the person together with its contact information. Vignette approach is way too plastic for my taste. I carefully curate my contacts and associate photos I take to them. Many people use avatars they do not reflect who they are, I can’t stand that on my contacts. That, mainly, and the fact that the app costs $5 (way too much in my opinion) are the only reason that will kee…

> $5 (way too much in my opinion) I wish people considered how much it costs to develop an app and then looked at the cost, keeping in mind that somebody out there needs to make a living, and apps do not sell in millions. I am really annoyed by what Apple did to software pricing: it seems most people want stuff to be FREE or $1.99 these days. If that is your expectation, do not expect good apps, because it simply doe…

> I am really annoyed by what Apple did to software pricing

Me too, but for almost the opposite reason: Apple is disallowing GPL software in the app store, and is thereby not allowing decent collaborative and communal efforts to supply good alternatives to the glut of dinky nickle-and-dime apps.

Re: Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

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Post by f_m »

jjude wrote: post #31
scarface74 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well Marco did outsource porting Instapaper to Android before he sold it... https://marco.org/2012/06/06/instapaper-for-android But I doubt he would do the same for Overcast.

Just yesterday was searching on the Google Play Store if there is an Android version of Overcast. There is no decent podcast app that has this particular feature of Overcast - cutting off silence.

One of the most used podcast apps on Android has to be Pocket Casts, and they support removing silence : https://support.pocketcasts.com/article/audio-effects/

Re: Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

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Post by ubercow13 »

szhu wrote: post #28
chii wrote: post #26

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> how much it costs to develop an app i don't care as a consumer how much it cost to develop. If i can see benefit of the app, and that benefit is worth more than the sticker price, then the app is worth it. Most apps aren't worth their sticker price.

I think that the Free/$1.99 price trend actually cheapens how much value you think apps provide you with. Does this app have less value to you than a Starbucks? Does it have less value than a bridge toll or a few hours of city street parking? I think that to many users, this app would be more useful than those examples above. But when people think about the value that apps provide, they tend to compare the app to Fac…

I don't buy Starbucks because its value to me is definitely nowhere near the sticker price.

Meanwhile my phone is full of a boatload of apps I paid for that turned out not to be useful or good that I regret buying. I think if I average over all apps I have bought since first getting a smartphone, their utility is below what I have paid for them. Most apps are not very good.

Re: Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

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Post by VvR-Ox »

nerdbaggy wrote: post #9

Our support desk enriches the data about who e-mailed in, and among that is a picture. Now every time our most import client submits a ticket it’s a picture of him and his wife in a hot tub

Haha nice that came to my mind, first :-D

Re: Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles

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Post by BozeWolf »

Cool! Well done!! Love the techniques used and the way you find photos. Also like the design. Good luck with being indi developer.

I launched a similiar app a few weeks ago (LibreContacts), but did not make much fuzz about it yet because: busy. It adds profile pics from whatsapp to your contacts.

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