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huh? Google have built instagram. It's standard on any Android phone. [photo] -> [share] -> picasa/twitter/facebook/gmail/etc Unless I'm missing something, in

by axod 16y ago

huh? Google have built instagram. It's standard on any Android phone. [photo] -> [share] -> picasa/twitter/facebook/gmail/etc Unless I'm missing something, instagram is a 'feature' that should be on any smartphone. Not surprising it's not on the iPhone though. (First I'd heard of instagram as well. This is an interesting way to get PR).

zalew 16y ago
instagram applies vintage filters, so digital modern photos look like the ones from a cheap used old camera
- nikcub 16y ago
  that is a problem for instagram - it isn't defensible atm. I imagine the Android team will look at it and think 'really, so people want to do that - ok, lets add filters in the next release' and done.
  - zalew 16y ago
    I know, I wouldn't use instagram or these filters anyways, but people seem to like this hipster stuff. Bigger problem for them is, they have to think what to offer their users before these vintage-effect photos stop being trendy.
    - DannoHung 16y ago
      Ehh, they don't have to worry about that until the cameras on phones stop being so shit. The reason people like the vintage effects is that lots of phones end up taking blurry, slightly out of focus, under and over exposed photos. Slap some vintage filters on that and it looks somewhat charming. Now, on the other hand, take some serious optics and truths same and unless you explicitly start blowing things out on the photo you've got something weird and artificial looking.
  - roc 16y ago
    The filters are part of it, because of the way they gloss over crap/boring photos with a layer of nostalgia. But there are plenty of camera apps on the iphone that have filters (often exactly the same ones) and can post to facebook/flickr/picasa -- and they haven't generated the interest Instagram has. There's more to it, and it really does seem to be the social-network-seeing-what-your-friends-doing part.
- haribilalic 16y ago
  This. The iPhone's Camera and Photos application lets you share photos the same as you might on Android.
drgath 16y ago
The point wasn't that Google can't make the technology, of course it can. The point was that Google can't create the product. Besides, Instagram isn't even a key part of the post. Swap in any other hot startup of the week and it's still the same point: Google has an innovation problem (according to Scoble).
- axod 16y ago
  I'd never heard of it, it's free (hard to monetize), seriously, I'm not sure Google are that worried. There'll always be some hot new fad. I don't think Google would be doing any good getting into the game of creating hot new fads.
GHFigs 16y ago
Unless I'm missing something You are. Instagr.am is itself a social network and at least as much about looking at photos as sharing them. Where sharing is concerned, it's aimed at sharing across multiple sites at once, and quickly. The filters, as cheesy as many people find them, have a tendency to induce already snap-happy users to take and share more photos with their friends who then ask "How can I do that?"

by axod 16y ago

zalew 16y ago

instagram applies vintage filters, so digital modern photos look like the ones from a cheap used old camera

nikcub 16y ago
that is a problem for instagram - it isn't defensible atm. I imagine the Android team will look at it and think 'really, so people want to do that - ok, lets add filters in the next release' and done.
- zalew 16y ago
  I know, I wouldn't use instagram or these filters anyways, but people seem to like this hipster stuff. Bigger problem for them is, they have to think what to offer their users before these vintage-effect photos stop being trendy.
  - DannoHung 16y ago
    Ehh, they don't have to worry about that until the cameras on phones stop being so shit. The reason people like the vintage effects is that lots of phones end up taking blurry, slightly out of focus, under and over exposed photos. Slap some vintage filters on that and it looks somewhat charming. Now, on the other hand, take some serious optics and truths same and unless you explicitly start blowing things out on the photo you've got something weird and artificial looking.
- roc 16y ago
  The filters are part of it, because of the way they gloss over crap/boring photos with a layer of nostalgia. But there are plenty of camera apps on the iphone that have filters (often exactly the same ones) and can post to facebook/flickr/picasa -- and they haven't generated the interest Instagram has. There's more to it, and it really does seem to be the social-network-seeing-what-your-friends-doing part.
haribilalic 16y ago
This. The iPhone's Camera and Photos application lets you share photos the same as you might on Android.

drgath 16y ago

The point wasn't that Google can't make the technology, of course it can. The point was that Google can't create the product. Besides, Instagram isn't even a key part of the post. Swap in any other hot startup of the week and it's still the same point: Google has an innovation problem (according to Scoble).

axod 16y ago
I'd never heard of it, it's free (hard to monetize), seriously, I'm not sure Google are that worried. There'll always be some hot new fad. I don't think Google would be doing any good getting into the game of creating hot new fads.

GHFigs 16y ago

Unless I'm missing something You are. Instagr.am is itself a social network and at least as much about looking at photos as sharing them. Where sharing is concerned, it's aimed at sharing across multiple sites at once, and quickly. The filters, as cheesy as many people find them, have a tendency to induce already snap-happy users to take and share more photos with their friends who then ask "How can I do that?"