How does the app know who I am without asking me to log into Facebook? Is it guessing somehow from my FB app's login + UUID? Or am I missing something basic
Introducing Facebook Camera
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#73I really don't see the point of separate apps. The main Facebook app, Facebook Messenger, Facebook Photos...what's next? Anyone who can enlighten me why this would be a good strategy? Seems like unnecessary fragmentation to me.
Icon space. Assuming most people don't put their related apps in folders, they instead have it all on display. Like shelf space at the grocery store. The more product users can see with your brand, the more they'll
1) Trust the brand
2) Use it
I'm sure if they haven't integrated them yet, they will; and that in itself is a kind of lock-in you could only otherwise get if you owned the OS.
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#74How does the app know who I am without asking me to log into Facebook? Is it guessing somehow from my FB app's login + UUID? Or am I missing something basic
Just a guess, but the iOS keychain can be used to share information across applications with a common bundle prefix.
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#75The style reminds me a lot of Google+. It's good that they're willing to accept design inspiration from outside Facebook.
A lot of the people working on the app were from Sofa.
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#76I really don't see the point of separate apps. The main Facebook app, Facebook Messenger, Facebook Photos...what's next? Anyone who can enlighten me why this would be a good strategy? Seems like unnecessary fragmentation to me.
I think this might have something to do with the App Center they are launching soon. Making people install their own apps through the app center will make them more familiar with it.
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#77Since this app seems to directly "compete" with the Instagram app, I wonder if their goal is to get rid of Instagram completely.
I've always thought that the goal was to slowly let Instagram die in the same way Flickr has.
Flickr is dead? News to me, I've been using it today to search for creative commons images. Software is much broader than what you and your friends use. :-)
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#78What's with the generic name camera. Good luck ranking for the term.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the iOS paradigm to make feature simple standalone apps. Why do you think Apple has both a "Photo Album" and "Camera" app? And both a "Phone" and "Contacts" app? Many users upload photos to Facebook, so there's a huge incentive to make an app that makes it simple to do this. Even if the main Facebook app has feature parity with FBPhotos, it's still going to come with all of the cruft.
It's somewhat in following with the Unix paradigm; do one thing, do it well.
So when can we do $ camera | fb-photo | facebook | sed 4 | awk ?
Chaining the utilities is the crux of the Unix paradigm, remove that and you're left with individual utilities that are far less powerful than when chained together.
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#80UX bug that is actually fairly glaring when it comes down to it: I searched for "Facebook Camera" in the app store, but because it is so new, it is not there (ok, seems normal) I went to the site and clicked "Text link to my phone", phone number already filled out, text went through fine (so far so good) Clicked on the link, but facebooks mobile detection caught it before the redirect happened, didn't know how to han…
It worked for me from the SMS (although the App Store crashed the first time but that is on Apple). Maybe it's fixed.