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This is why I recommend that people buy Android phones. Sharing media on Android is dead simple and very powerful. For example: Take a photo, go to gallery, tap

This is why I recommend that people buy Android phones. Sharing media on Android is dead simple and very powerful. For example: Take a photo, go to gallery, tap share, pick how you want to share it. If you want to share multiple pieces of media, go to the gallery and long tap to select multiple items and repeat the process. This "share" process is deeply engrained in the Android OS and is one of the easiest things for an Android developer to implement. When a user opens a photo, the OS sends out an "Intent" with a data type as part of the metadata. An app can register to receive the intent if it matches their supported data type. If there are multiple apps registered for a particular data type, the OS shows a list for the user to select which app should complete the operation.

roc 14y ago
The trick is the "how you want to share it" portion. The article is complaining there's no easy way to share mixed media. But it's primarily a complaint that there's no built-in service to upload said mixed-media to, for sharing. The article then discounts Facebook for privacy reasons, Dropbox for space reasons and Kicksend for not handling mixed media. (One would assume g+ is similarly ruled out for reasons of privacy and accessibility to family members not on Facebook.) So what the article is looking for isn't even strictly a mobile UI solution so much as a web service with effectively-unlimited storage, mixed-media support and some unspecified privacy/security options. And that's something largely orthogonal to mobile OS.
- generalk 14y ago
  But it's primarily a complaint that there's no built-in service to upload said mixed-media to, for sharing. I can think of several off the top of my head, Flickr being the best of them. To your parent comment's point, with an Android phone sharing those is just as "built-in" as the apps that shipped with the phone. It's right in the "share" menu with everything else. So what the article is looking for isn't even strictly a mobile UI solution so much as a web service with effectively- unlimited storage, mixed-media support and some unspecified privacy/security options. TFA has a list of what he hopes to see from Apple in 2012. If you replace "iPhone" with "Galaxy Nexus" in the list, all but the very last item are solved, and that's just one more manual step away. And this works for any media-hosting service you want to use, not just the one that Apple blesses. (edits for formatting)
  - joesb 14y ago
    So the only thing missing from iPhone is the built-in "share" button. But everything else is already solved with iPhone Flickr app. But since TFA also list Dropbox and Kicksend, both are not builtin in iOS, it seems the author would accept non-builtin Flickr solution as well. So the whole article would come down to "I don't know Flickr exists and can share video".

roc 14y ago

The trick is the "how you want to share it" portion. The article is complaining there's no easy way to share mixed media. But it's primarily a complaint that there's no built-in service to upload said mixed-media to, for sharing. The article then discounts Facebook for privacy reasons, Dropbox for space reasons and Kicksend for not handling mixed media. (One would assume g+ is similarly ruled out for reasons of privacy and accessibility to family members not on Facebook.) So what the article is looking for isn't even strictly a mobile UI solution so much as a web service with effectively-unlimited storage, mixed-media support and some unspecified privacy/security options. And that's something largely orthogonal to mobile OS.

generalk 14y ago
But it's primarily a complaint that there's no built-in service to upload said mixed-media to, for sharing. I can think of several off the top of my head, Flickr being the best of them. To your parent comment's point, with an Android phone sharing those is just as "built-in" as the apps that shipped with the phone. It's right in the "share" menu with everything else. So what the article is looking for isn't even strictly a mobile UI solution so much as a web service with effectively- unlimited storage, mixed-media support and some unspecified privacy/security options. TFA has a list of what he hopes to see from Apple in 2012. If you replace "iPhone" with "Galaxy Nexus" in the list, all but the very last item are solved, and that's just one more manual step away. And this works for any media-hosting service you want to use, not just the one that Apple blesses. (edits for formatting)
- joesb 14y ago
  So the only thing missing from iPhone is the built-in "share" button. But everything else is already solved with iPhone Flickr app. But since TFA also list Dropbox and Kicksend, both are not builtin in iOS, it seems the author would accept non-builtin Flickr solution as well. So the whole article would come down to "I don't know Flickr exists and can share video".