I've been waiting for this. Now, only if a single one of the android phones had a decent camera, I'd be in business.
I'd consider the camera on the HTC One as one of the best mobile cameras available.
Vine for Android
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Re: Vine for Android
#42Does anyone else find this app sort of overwhelming? Not necessarily in a bad way either.
I remember when my boss showed me a flurry of vines from her trip to Washington DC, I found myself feeling a bit disoriented as I tried to catch up with the rapidly switching contexts of each video.
The same things happens to me when I'm scrolling through a feed. It's strange to me that it doesn't happen with pictures, but I can only describe it as being teleported through the globe in rapid-fire mode.
Am I just an old fogey at the ripe old age of 31?
Re: Vine for Android
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had thought that Vine was something akin to Google Hangouts until now. So now I know instead that it is a simple to use, high quality animated gif generator... Which I guess isn't such a bad thing. It certainly has entertainment value (I'm not really of the camp that believes that every company has to make world-changing products)
I wouldn't think of it that way, more like Twitter for video sharing. By adding an arbitrary limit to what you can share - 140 characters for Twitter, 6.5s for Vine - and removing all friction between making the thing and sharing it, it removes the pressure of feeling like you need to make something good or polished, and you're more likely to share.
Mobile has gone way too far in this direction IMO. Making it easier to share mostly means not only that people post a ton of crap but they're too ADD to take the time to understand and appreciate content with more substance. Stuff like this dumbs us down.
Re: Vine for Android
#44Does anyone else find this app sort of overwhelming? Not necessarily in a bad way either. I remember when my boss showed me a flurry of vines from her trip to Washington DC, I found myself feeling a bit disoriented as I tried to catch up with the rapidly switching contexts of each video. The same things happens to me when I'm scrolling through a feed. It's strange to me that it doesn't happen with pictures, but I can…
No I feel the same way at age 21. It's quite hard to follow the quick-cutting nature of most videos. The ones I tend to like the most are comedy videos that have really quick setups and punchlines.
Re: Vine for Android
#45I've been waiting for this. Now, only if a single one of the android phones had a decent camera, I'd be in business.
I'd consider the camera on the HTC One as one of the best mobile cameras available.
It will be interesting to see if HTC tries to set up some sort of Zoe to Vine integration.
Re: Vine for Android
#46Finally. I recently switched to a Galaxy S4 and lack of Vine was disheartening to me. I'm glad to finally see a popular app make its way into the worlds most popular app store. I wish more high-profile apps would launch with iOS and Android in mind instead of just iOS, us Android users love cool apps too.
I'm actually quite happy with the app parody we're reaching. Most, if not all, of the apps on my Galaxy Nexus home-screen are available on both platforms.
> app parody
My thoughts exactly on most Android apps :p
(I say this as current Android user, ex-iPhone user, and an ex-Googler).
Re: Vine for Android
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had thought that Vine was something akin to Google Hangouts until now. So now I know instead that it is a simple to use, high quality animated gif generator... Which I guess isn't such a bad thing. It certainly has entertainment value (I'm not really of the camp that believes that every company has to make world-changing products)
I wouldn't think of it that way, more like Twitter for video sharing. By adding an arbitrary limit to what you can share - 140 characters for Twitter, 6.5s for Vine - and removing all friction between making the thing and sharing it, it removes the pressure of feeling like you need to make something good or polished, and you're more likely to share.
Sounds like Keek, which has been doing it for 2 years already.
Re: Vine for Android
#48Painfully slow and clunky non-native app. Crashed thrice on my Galaxy Nexus 4.2.2. Closed it. Not using as of now.
Guess, I'll wait for a few updates or patches before uninstalling. Or maybe I'll reinstall after it's stable enough.
By the way, I don't think there's a way to browse Vine on the web, is it?
App had it seems pre-subscribed to some of the users/streams/or-vines-maybe, because my feed is not empty and I don't see a way to empty it and then maybe subscribe to users/handles I would find fitting to my taste(I doubt that seeing all the animations).
Re: Vine for Android
#49Vine seems awesome, but it has a fundamental issue that I just can't get past: I can't easily add my friends from Facebook. Now that isn't Vine's (or Twitter's) fault, it's due to Facebook's new policies[1], a policy that was nearly too late and required them to buy out Instagram. I don't know how a company can help someone find their current Facebook friends, and match that with users of their social network, but it…
I find that an interesting contrast to my position. If anything even mentions facebook I avoid it. Social network integration to me is a privacy concern, and it's overuse a social liability.