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People were falling over themselves to sing the praises of Color when it came out.
by mkr-hn 14y ago
People were falling over themselves to sing the praises of Color when it came out.
- dannyr 14y agoPraises? Color was vilified in the Valley because of their excessive funding. Care to show proof of people praising Color?
- mkr-hn 14y agoThe vilification was a response to the fountains of praise before it launched. I didn't think to keep links handy.
- dannyr 14y agoPraise before it launched? Can you mention what they praised about Color? I live in Silicon Valley and plugged in to the startup community. I don't know anybody who praised Color. Their app on both Android and iOS was horrible.
- _delirium 14y agoDepends perhaps on whether you count the Valley press and venture capitalists as part of the Valley community. Obviously the VCs were praising it: Sequoia and others put a huge pile of cash into Color. And the Valley press was breathless over them too, with TechCrunch publishing this prelaunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/23/color-looks-to-reinvent-social-interaction-with-its-mobile-photo-app-and-41-million-in-funding/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/23/color-looks-to-reinvent-soc...
- jamesaguilar 14y agoI do not remember this. People were shocked at how useless it was and how much money was sunk into it.
- mkr-hn 14y agoI meant when the news of Color came out.
- kajecounterhack 14y agoSarcasm doesn't translate well on the internet, so I'd make that more obvious. And I do hope you're being sarcastic.