Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap
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Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap
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#2If you invited me over for diner and then pulled out a photo album, I would leave. The concept is cool, but photo sharing is over hyped.
Re: Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap
#3I'm reminded of the nerd response to iPad.
I don't have a dog in the hunt, but the idea behind Color is interesting. It could crash and burn but I'll reserve judgment until I see normal people (non-nerds) engaging with it.
Meanwhile, the vehemence is weird from everyone, especially Gruber. I wonder if he would have posted the same entry if Color had a Lonely Sandwich video.
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#4I'm fascinated by this Photo-Sharing-is-tip-of-the-iceberg tidbit:
"A few feats of engineering brilliance hide under Color's slick surface. How does the app determine who's in the same room with you? Not with GPS, which is flummoxed by floors because it can't distinguish vertical distances between people. So Nguyen's team taught Color to use a phone's lighting and audio sensors, stitching their signals together with the sound and light environments of nearby devices to determine which user is where--it's almost like a bat's senses."
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0411/technology-photo-app-...
Re: Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap
#5If you invited me over for diner and then pulled out a photo album, I would leave. The concept is cool, but photo sharing is over hyped.
Is photo sharing this generation's equivalent of the mandatory family Kodachrome slide show?
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#6I'm reminded of the nerd response to iPad. I don't have a dog in the hunt, but the idea behind Color is interesting. It could crash and burn but I'll reserve judgment until I see normal people (non-nerds) engaging with it. Meanwhile, the vehemence is weird from everyone, especially Gruber. I wonder if he would have posted the same entry if Color had a Lonely Sandwich video.
The iPad is a computer that, as far as my mom is concerned, you never have to boot, don't have to think about the operating system on, don't require peripherals for, can stick in your purse, can tap 3-4 times to get install any of 10's of thousands of applications, can tap 3-4 times to install any of thousands of movies and TV shows on, and costs half of what a cheap laptop cost only recently.
Can you inform me of the obvious potential of "Color" that I'm missing? Because I also seriously don't get it. And: I like Instagram. But I don't think it's the future or anything.
(Yes. They would have dodged this Daring Fireball post if Adam Lisagor had done a video for them.)
Re: Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap
#7If you invited me over for diner and then pulled out a photo album, I would leave. The concept is cool, but photo sharing is over hyped.
That's what also struck me. I already have thousands of photos that I don't look at - both hardcopy and on a hard drive.
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#8I'm fascinated by this Photo-Sharing-is-tip-of-the-iceberg tidbit: "A few feats of engineering brilliance hide under Color's slick surface. How does the app determine who's in the same room with you? Not with GPS, which is flummoxed by floors because it can't distinguish vertical distances between people. So Nguyen's team taught Color to use a phone's lighting and audio sensors, stitching their signals together with…
So... it's the great photo sharing app of all time, then? Um, ok? $41MM?
When's the last time you had even the faintest urge to share a photo? I'm a geek, and that urge hits maybe once every other week.
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#9So let's call Color the Rebecca Black of Web 2.0.
Too immature, too early to tell, too much attention out of nowhere, too much momentum for too little effort. But it looks good, right?
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#10I'm fascinated by this Photo-Sharing-is-tip-of-the-iceberg tidbit: "A few feats of engineering brilliance hide under Color's slick surface. How does the app determine who's in the same room with you? Not with GPS, which is flummoxed by floors because it can't distinguish vertical distances between people. So Nguyen's team taught Color to use a phone's lighting and audio sensors, stitching their signals together with…
So... it's the great photo sharing app of all time , then? Um, ok? $41MM? When's the last time you had even the faintest urge to share a photo? I'm a geek, and that urge hits maybe once every other week.
It's like Foursquare/Facebook where you have to opt out of publicizing your entire life. I suppose advertisers (the FBI?) are drooling over the possibilities, and that's probably what fuels the investment more than user excitement.
Also, "everyone who was at the bar last night automatically sees the pictures (without any pesky 'publish' button or other form of 'opting in')" may be a more compelling user story than you give it credit for.