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>Could Flickr create a beautiful magazinelike iPad application that allows people to skim through high-resolution images on the service? How does this Flickr a
by joonix 14y ago
>Could Flickr create a beautiful magazinelike iPad application that allows people to skim through high-resolution images on the service?
How does this Flickr app not already exist? I'm pretty sure a couple of 20yr old coders could make an app like this in a day or two if they had access to Flickr's data. The hard part isn't displaying images on a tablet, its having the high quality images in the first place.
- n0nick 14y agoWell, go ahead then :) The APIs are out there... IMO the challenge here is defining the right UX and brand. Not to say that it shouldn't be done, I'd much rather Flickr achieving this than Instagram (= Facebook) or any other current player in the market.
- 89a 14y agoBecause no one would care? Tumblr/Flipboard do this better already and the data can be anywhere from the internet not locked up in Flickr
- pauldbourke 14y agoHere you go: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bourke.glimmr https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bourke.gli... (though Android not iOS)