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Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap
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Re: Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap
#32I'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…
Yeah, I too noticed the mic and camera monitoring being an integral part of the app. It seems to me they realize privacy issues stemming from this and are trying to downplay them by calling the microphone an "audio sensor". And this just does not sit right with me. Feeding users half-truths for their own sake is a slippery path. But perhaps I am overreacting.
I would imagine it does the analysis locally and sends some sort of "room signature" to the server, rather than a complete audio stream, which would be an awful waste of bandwidth.
Re: Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap
#33Re: Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap
#34I'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…
Yeah, I too noticed the mic and camera monitoring being an integral part of the app. It seems to me they realize privacy issues stemming from this and are trying to downplay them by calling the microphone an "audio sensor". And this just does not sit right with me. Feeding users half-truths for their own sake is a slippery path. But perhaps I am overreacting.
I don't buy it either. You're telling me that every room on the same floor of a building (for example) has a specific audio signature, but identical rooms on other floors do not? I betcha if I sat next to the pop machine in my office's cafeteria, it wouldn't match the ambient noise in the conference room next door.
Re: Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 th…
It took me over a year before I "got" twitter. Now it would be hard to see how I could replace it - tracking outages, ongoing event updates, what my friends are up to, revolutions in Egypt - Heck, our company's public feed is actually the best way for me to track what's happening at our company than our internal mailing lists. Of course, it remains to be seen whether there's any money in it. Everyone I know uses AIM…
I think is spot on.
My children inherit my old iphones (no sims) and I'm going to set them up - will be interesting to see the photostreams from round my house and the places we go... (and if you are wondering I'm from the Bill Joy school of privacy - there isn't any and I learn to live with it)
I can see it being quite cool for meeting people too - if you are in a space and someone else is making pictures there.
I can also see the potential for hidden artworks/performance
I hope it does take off - it's a new kind of thing and really does have the power to transform our physical spaces
Re: Color: Breathlessly Overhyped Piece of Crap
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 yo…
I'm looking forward to all the "Fired/Divorced for Facebook/Twitter comments" equivalents that result from photos taken by other people you were in the same bar as turning up in your friends, family, spouses and bosses photostreams.