This looks a lot like Instagram to me.
You can upload pictures from here, there's a constant stream of photos, and you can apply effects to your pictures. There are a few differences from Instagram, but the essence seems the same to me.
Introducing Facebook Camera
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#122So no Android version? Plus there seems to already be an unrelated App named Facebook Camera in the Android Market, it should get a nice little downloads boost.
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#123I said earlier today [1] that mobile proposes a strategic risk to Facebook as they don't control the mobile platform like Apple or Google. This is really the best they can do to change that. I believe they're attempting to create a base mobile experience and use that as a selling point for mobile devices. On iOS for example there are standard apps for Mail, Maps, Search (browser), etc. I wouldn't be surprised if you…
This! My Android phone (HTC Desire) recently broke and I got a old iPhone 3G. One feature (among a lot of others) I really missed was being able to combine a contact with his facebook account. This feature could really make my next purchase be an android phone and not something else.
Then just buy an Windows Phone! There you can combine Facebook + Twitter + LinkedIn + you name it ;)
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#124More ad-free mobile experiences from bubblebook... This ought to generate so much value. /roll
The userbase is almost always more valuable than immediate monetization.
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#125Since this app seems to directly "compete" with the Instagram app, I wonder if their goal is to get rid of Instagram completely.
I just assumed it was instagram people, and the two products would eventually become one.
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#126Reminds me of when Yahoo Photos was competing with Flickr.
Google did something similar too. They had "Google Videos" which competed with "YouTube" for a very long time.
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#127I really don't see the point of separate apps. The main Facebook app, Facebook Messenger, Facebook Photos...what's next? Anyone who can enlighten me why this would be a good strategy? Seems like unnecessary fragmentation to me.
When you try to design a mobile app you quickly realize how little real-estate you have on a phone to build a complex interface. Facebook is a ridiculously complex app when you think about all of the things you can do. Facebook might be working under the assumption that they can make cleaner, simpler products by breaking them out into smaller functional units all backed by the same social graph. Or this could be a re…
> Or this could be a relic of something the Sofa team was working on before the Instagram deal.
Probably. And the Instagram deal is still under review from the FTC for quite some time, so it'll be awhile before we see any major integrations, I think.
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#128Since this app seems to directly "compete" with the Instagram app, I wonder if their goal is to get rid of Instagram completely.
I just assumed it was instagram people, and the two products would eventually become one.
No. The FTC is probing the purchase, which was to close 2nd Quarter this year, so it'll delay that. That said, it's still very possible the two will eventually become one.
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#129This reminds me of a certain other mobile camera app that FB acquired quite recently...
I've said it in this thread already, but that acquisition is definitely not finalized.
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#130I really don't see the point of separate apps. The main Facebook app, Facebook Messenger, Facebook Photos...what's next? Anyone who can enlighten me why this would be a good strategy? Seems like unnecessary fragmentation to me.
In part, for the same reason (in part) that Instagram blew up. iOS doesn't have Android's intent feature.
Billion dollars for cloning one instance of a feature of android. So much for the "apps sell, not features" theory