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Re: Video on Instagram

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Post by hospadam »

Aside from the actual product announcement... I'm interested to see that they created an Android and iOS version at the same time. For the past several years, Android apps were typically pushed off a month (or years, in Instagram's case).

I wonder if their Android app drove much of their adoption in the past year or so, and as such, they decided to make sure they could launch feature-complete apps on both platforms on day one?

If so - will Android finally start getting apps on pace with iOS?

Re: Video on Instagram

#92

Post by kennywinker »

agscala wrote: post #69

Personally I like the limited "editing" capabilities of vine, where you hold a button and "fill up" part of the 6 seconds of video. It creates some really interesting possibilities that this simply won't have. This does have filters but I don't think that'll make up for it

Have you tried instagram's video feature yet? It totally has that same thing. Only with this you can undo your last shot, instead of re-starting if you mess up. Undo is an improvement on the formula, not a corruption.

Re: Video on Instagram

#93

Post by archivator »

samstave wrote: post #90
archivator wrote: post #85

The update hasn't reached the server around me, so I can't verify - are the filters really just the photo filters but on video? If so, I'm massively disappointed - they have a whole new dimension of data and they're doing nothing with it! Yes, video filters are hard. That makes them worth doing.

Can you elaborate on what you think they Gould be doing with this re dimension of data in video? Personally, I think everything around how Facebook does groups is broken. Get out of the single-vertical-column shackles.

Anything from light trails, fading shadows, cross-frame colour effects to stuff I can't even imagine! The possibilities are greatly expanded, if you stop thinking of video as lots-of-images-one-after-another.

Re: Video on Instagram

#94

Post by nashequilibrium »

They should have not sold to Facebook, they had cracked social on mobile. The introduction of video just proves this point even more, as they built out their feature stack over the years, they would have slowly made facebook less relevant. Instagram is seen as cool on mobile as facebook was cool on the desktop. If Zuckerburg had started instagram, he would not have sold it.

Re: Video on Instagram

#96

Post by gfodor »

nashequilibrium wrote: post #94

They should have not sold to Facebook, they had cracked social on mobile. The introduction of video just proves this point even more, as they built out their feature stack over the years, they would have slowly made facebook less relevant. Instagram is seen as cool on mobile as facebook was cool on the desktop. If Zuckerburg had started instagram, he would not have sold it.

A billion dollars is a fuckload of money.

Re: Video on Instagram

#97

Post by nashequilibrium »

gfodor wrote: post #96
nashequilibrium wrote: post #94

They should have not sold to Facebook, they had cracked social on mobile. The introduction of video just proves this point even more, as they built out their feature stack over the years, they would have slowly made facebook less relevant. Instagram is seen as cool on mobile as facebook was cool on the desktop. If Zuckerburg had started instagram, he would not have sold it.

A billion dollars is a fuckload of money.

I would still settle for taking a company public. Also it was much less than a billion, but there was stock issued as well.

Re: Video on Instagram

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Post by bluetidepro »

I don't mind that Instagram has video now, because that does seem logical for them to add. However, they really need to make videos separate from the pictures somehow. Either by having separate feeds for video content and the classic picture feed or a way to filter by type in the feed.

It is nice that there is an option for videos to not play automatically, but I would still rather just not see videos all together.

I can tell you now that there is going to be a lot of "unfollowing" in the near future with this new feature.

Re: Video on Instagram

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Post by spiek »

nashequilibrium wrote: post #97
gfodor wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A billion dollars is a fuckload of money.

I would still settle for taking a company public. Also it was much less than a billion, but there was stock issued as well.

And, IIRC, it was worth a whole heck of a lot less (like $300 mil less) because of the Facebook IPO disaster.
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