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Why I Hate Facebook - Facebook Releases "Camera"

bking 14y ago
I agree with you about the camera app. FB bought out the competition. I smell a antitrust case coming.
- zashapiro 14y ago
  No it didn't. There are a million photo-sharing apps out there. Just because Instagram was the most popular doesn't mean it was the only one.
ddunkin 14y ago
Why do they need a second app anyway? If they could just merge the working upload functionality into their existing app and let us use our own camera apps. I almost feel they intentionally broke photo uploads in their app in the past 6 months in prep for this release.
- tomschlick 14y ago
  Here is a pretty good example http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4019595 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4019595
kenrikm 14y ago
I have a few issues with this. First, Camera had to already be in development before the Instagram deal so they did "buy out the competition". Second, there is no way in hell Apple would have approved an application with the same name as one of the default apps if it was not Facebook. Are "clock" "messages" "newsstand" etc.. fair game/names for all App developers now?
frasertimo 14y ago
Disagree. If you look at all the three camera apps next to it (including instagram) they all have the camera lense. It seems facetious to suggest this is 'copying' Apple. Also, what's the big deal with making it similar to Apple's App? Anyone who usually tries to copy them would be pitied because we know that copying Apple is a recipe for disaster. But because it's instagram, we know it's going to succeed. So it seems you have some sort of issue with Facebook spending $1 billion and then trying to grow the app from there. Getting sick of the FB hate just because we now take it for granted. I've been through that phase, and it feels very unnecessary now.
jaems33 14y ago
Pretty sure Facebook was developing Camera for a long time before Zuckerberg pulled a fast one and bought Instagram. As for the icon... it's a camera in an app button. What's the big deal? Facebook color is that blue. Default OS is white. I don't even have an iPhone and I know this.
xpose2000 14y ago
Apple has recommended this app already. Therefore they think it's just fine. Also, what about Camera+? Is that a sleazy name too? I also want to point out that by default Google Plus on Android automatically uploads each picture I take. You know what I call that? Awesome. I don't want to bother doing it manually. However, I want to manually select the ones I want to share. If anything, facebook is copying that functionality. If facebook only cared about it's revenue stream then their users would see a lot of in your face type ads. There are no popups and it is all done in a fairly classy manner. This article suggests bias against Facebook and nothing more.
ChuckMcM 14y ago
Hmm, I can think of better reasons to dislike them than they put another camera app up in the iOS universe. I agree that they would have been better off tweaking the Instagram icon rather than copying the native icon.
obituary_latte 14y ago
>They took it a step further to design an icon that looks exactly like the built-in Apple Camera app. Well...I wound't say exactly. Also, If they're such an unscrupulous company, you could always stop using their services. The reasons you give for not doing so aren't real reasons--it's laziness. I don't use FB at all and am still quite able to communicate with my friends and family (who may or may not be on FB). Go me.

bking 14y ago

I agree with you about the camera app. FB bought out the competition. I smell a antitrust case coming.

zashapiro 14y ago
No it didn't. There are a million photo-sharing apps out there. Just because Instagram was the most popular doesn't mean it was the only one.

Why do they need a second app anyway? If they could just merge the working upload functionality into their existing app and let us use our own camera apps. I almost feel they intentionally broke photo uploads in their app in the past 6 months in prep for this release.

tomschlick 14y ago
Here is a pretty good example http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4019595 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4019595

kenrikm 14y ago

I have a few issues with this. First, Camera had to already be in development before the Instagram deal so they did "buy out the competition". Second, there is no way in hell Apple would have approved an application with the same name as one of the default apps if it was not Facebook. Are "clock" "messages" "newsstand" etc.. fair game/names for all App developers now?

frasertimo 14y ago

Disagree. If you look at all the three camera apps next to it (including instagram) they all have the camera lense. It seems facetious to suggest this is 'copying' Apple. Also, what's the big deal with making it similar to Apple's App? Anyone who usually tries to copy them would be pitied because we know that copying Apple is a recipe for disaster. But because it's instagram, we know it's going to succeed. So it seems you have some sort of issue with Facebook spending $1 billion and then trying to grow the app from there. Getting sick of the FB hate just because we now take it for granted. I've been through that phase, and it feels very unnecessary now.

jaems33 14y ago

Pretty sure Facebook was developing Camera for a long time before Zuckerberg pulled a fast one and bought Instagram. As for the icon... it's a camera in an app button. What's the big deal? Facebook color is that blue. Default OS is white. I don't even have an iPhone and I know this.

xpose2000 14y ago

Apple has recommended this app already. Therefore they think it's just fine. Also, what about Camera+? Is that a sleazy name too? I also want to point out that by default Google Plus on Android automatically uploads each picture I take. You know what I call that? Awesome. I don't want to bother doing it manually. However, I want to manually select the ones I want to share. If anything, facebook is copying that functionality. If facebook only cared about it's revenue stream then their users would see a lot of in your face type ads. There are no popups and it is all done in a fairly classy manner. This article suggests bias against Facebook and nothing more.

ChuckMcM 14y ago

Hmm, I can think of better reasons to dislike them than they put another camera app up in the iOS universe. I agree that they would have been better off tweaking the Instagram icon rather than copying the native icon.

obituary_latte 14y ago

>They took it a step further to design an icon that looks exactly like the built-in Apple Camera app. Well...I wound't say exactly. Also, If they're such an unscrupulous company, you could always stop using their services. The reasons you give for not doing so aren't real reasons--it's laziness. I don't use FB at all and am still quite able to communicate with my friends and family (who may or may not be on FB). Go me.