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Color now available on Android Market

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Re: Color now available on Android Market

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Post by shareme »

sssparkkk wrote: post #4

Wow, first run of the app actually managed to make my phone reboot! Haven't seen anything like that before. Furthermore, I had no idea what I was doing or getting myself into when snapping a photo of myself and 'posting' it (after which the app crashed and my phone rebooted). So this is the android-part of something that got 41 million in funding? Pretty interesting.

its real bad development..you know the type when an Incubator posts a gig than asks the developer you can do this in 2 weeks right..

Re: Color now available on Android Market

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Post by geoffw8 »

paul9290 wrote: post #10

There was tons of hate, "That's so stupid," and what's the point commentary in Twitter's 1st and 2nd year of existence. I would think it wouldn't have gotten funding like this if the backers didnt see a similar opportunity.

...at least twitter "worked". Yeah, it fell over, but only because boatload of people were using it.

Re: Color now available on Android Market

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Post by joelhooks »

ikilledkojack wrote: post #7

It's not doing so great when reviewers are already making comments like "I really failed to see the idea of Color.". $41 million? Maybe there is something about this software or concept that isn't been seen yet by reviewers.

It is most definitely different. My first impulse was "where in the hell is the login"

So to do anything "interesting" with it you need to be in the direct proximity of other users with the app. I managed to get the picture of myself it asks for, but because it is such a PITA to find in the (Apple App) store I didn't bother putting it on my wife's phone to try. That seems lame anyway.

This is probably not going to be a big hit with the reclusive introvert type (me). It is an interesting concept though.

Re: Color now available on Android Market

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Post by ch0wn »

sssparkkk wrote: post #4

Wow, first run of the app actually managed to make my phone reboot! Haven't seen anything like that before. Furthermore, I had no idea what I was doing or getting myself into when snapping a photo of myself and 'posting' it (after which the app crashed and my phone rebooted). So this is the android-part of something that got 41 million in funding? Pretty interesting.

Thanks for the warning! Anyways, as apps are supposed to run sandboxed, an app shouldn't be able to crash the whole system. They might have found an Android bug there.

Re: Color now available on Android Market

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Post by gomer »

ch0wn wrote: post #15
sssparkkk wrote: post #4

Wow, first run of the app actually managed to make my phone reboot! Haven't seen anything like that before. Furthermore, I had no idea what I was doing or getting myself into when snapping a photo of myself and 'posting' it (after which the app crashed and my phone rebooted). So this is the android-part of something that got 41 million in funding? Pretty interesting.

Thanks for the warning! Anyways, as apps are supposed to run sandboxed, an app shouldn't be able to crash the whole system. They might have found an Android bug there.

On my droid x it often is rebooted when I try and send mail with the gmail client.

Re: Color now available on Android Market

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Post by presty »

paul9290 wrote: post #10

There was tons of hate, "That's so stupid," and what's the point commentary in Twitter's 1st and 2nd year of existence. I would think it wouldn't have gotten funding like this if the backers didnt see a similar opportunity.

when you opened up twitter.com, you could actually understand what was happening

with this android app? not really. very non intuitive icons and buggy as hell.

lets see what happens in the next iterations

Re: Color now available on Android Market

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Post by sp332 »

If you're curious, there are GPS location spoofers in the Android Market. Just remember to Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Development -> Allow mock locations. Then you can use Color + your location spoofer to see photos from people in other places!
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