It would be a better step for instagram if they would bring adding caption capability to android apps. They have this on ios and other apps use instagram as photo sharing social platform because of tags yet android developers has no such chance.
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#132Aside 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 o…
Recently, Foursquare & Tumblr released new features on Android first then followed by iOS weeks later.
Probably because you can update your app on Google Play instantly. On App Store, you'll have to go through the verification process for each update.
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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.
The deal wasn't a billion dollars or take a company public.
The deal was a billion dollars, keep building the product, or say no and prepare to compete head-on with Facebook in an all-out war.
I don't think any sane person would have taken the latter.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The gift of hindsight. Either way they made a mint.
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#135Sigh... Instagram talks a good game, but I find this to be more unimaginative dreck. Look, I get it, you need to clone Vine to stay competitive, but it's not new or a re-imagining of the video paradigm. Most of these social startups promise unique experiences based on new forms of social interaction, but really only deliver more ways to watch cats dance on the internet. Bring on the hardcore technology like better Et…
Look, I get it, you need to clone Vine to stay competitive, but it's not new or a re-imagining of the video paradigm.
Why does it have to be? And besides, by adding video, Instagram just put its boot on the throat of Vine. I already deleted Vine from my phone -- I went from seldom using it to having absolutely no need to use it.
Less Apps please.
They added video capability while maintaining the exact same user flow to take a photo. That's how you add a feature. It's a huge win for users.
(Edited to make more sense.)
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I actually like adding filters to my photos, not sure if that makes me dumb or a hipster but it kinda just makes them look more surreal at times.
It doesn't make you dumb or a hipster or anything like that. It's simply how you like your photos - and there's nothing wrong with that. As someone who has been involved with photography since the days of 35mm film and someone who has developed their own B&W in a lab - Instagram (and Vine) are regressions of the art. They utilize and encourage poor quality images, poor ratios, and poor choice in taste (cats and food…
> As someone who has been involved with photography since the days of 35mm film and someone who has developed their own B&W in a lab - Instagram (and Vine) are regressions of the art.
What can we do to improve the default pictures taken with smartphone cameras? The picture you get with that tiny camera isn't very good, even now, though I think that Instagram is an improvement.
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I think video's killer feature is the image stabilization. A large percentage of bad videos are because they're shaky as hell.
This is not a "killer feature" - Apple already includes a Class in iOS for video stabilization (AVCaptureConnection Class). This is just regurgitated marketing crap, as usual.
It's completely proprietary tech developed by a team of image processing specialists on the Instagram team.
It does not use any standard iOS libraries in any way whatsoever.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't make you dumb or a hipster or anything like that. It's simply how you like your photos - and there's nothing wrong with that. As someone who has been involved with photography since the days of 35mm film and someone who has developed their own B&W in a lab - Instagram (and Vine) are regressions of the art. They utilize and encourage poor quality images, poor ratios, and poor choice in taste (cats and food…
> As someone who has been involved with photography since the days of 35mm film and someone who has developed their own B&W in a lab - Instagram (and Vine) are regressions of the art. What can we do to improve the default pictures taken with smartphone cameras? The picture you get with that tiny camera isn't very good, even now, though I think that Instagram is an improvement.
Not sure how you think a The "default" smartphone photos are leaps and bounds better than IG, the only thing that will "improve" them is higher res cameras, I'm sure the iPhone 5S will see an 18MP camera with better software. Just look at panorama - that's a serious achievement in smartphone cameras.
Sharing photos is a different question/issue all together.
500px is a perfect example of an application that takes advantage of high-quality images, whether taken with a dSLR or not.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
> As someone who has been involved with photography since the days of 35mm film and someone who has developed their own B&W in a lab - Instagram (and Vine) are regressions of the art. What can we do to improve the default pictures taken with smartphone cameras? The picture you get with that tiny camera isn't very good, even now, though I think that Instagram is an improvement.
Not sure how you think a The "default" smartphone photos are leaps and bounds better than IG, the only thing that will "improve" them is higher res cameras, I'm sure the iPhone 5S will see an 18MP camera with better software. Just look at panorama - that's a serious achievement in smartphone cameras. Sharing photos is a different question/issue all together. 500px is a perfect example of an application that takes adv…
It doesn't really matter because Instagram photos are generally just viewed within Instagram, and they look fine there.
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#140With the proliferation of video, I wonder if Facebook will eventually try and identify products in videos and let advertisers create video spots that merge clips of your friends videos into sponsored posts. Imagine watching a short clip of your friend drinking a Coke in a sponsored post.