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Vine for Android
- gailees 13y agoThank God.
- yefim323 13y agoFinally.
- dakrisht 13y agoThis is a monumental milestone in innovation. Honored to be part of a society where Vine on Android makes the HN front page.
- frozenport 13y agoDon't feed the trolls, this isn't Reddit.
- gailees 13y agoI wonder how this will affect Instagram usage.
- Zikes 13y agoFor maximum effectiveness users will purchase Projecteo slides of their Instagram photos, then Vine themselves doing shadow puppets over the projections.
- psychometry 13y agoThis is exactly what my startup, Vinecteogram, does. Check us out on the App Store!
- tommaxwell 13y agoFinally. I love seeing high quality apps make it to Android.
- tommaxwell 13y agoAnnoyed. I uploaded my first Vine and am connected to Twitter but the share option isn't appearing under the "More" (three dots) menu.
- dakrisht 13y agoLooks like someone has a case of the Monday's
- tommaxwell 13y agoYou said it.
- tommaxwell 13y agoOkay, it just took a really long time for Vine to share it to Twitter.
- ParadisoShlee 13y agoHoly Capacity issues batman. the vines are not loading for me...
- DigitalSea 13y agoFinally. I recently switched to a Galaxy S4 and lack of Vine was disheartening to me. I'm glad to finally see a popular app make its way into the worlds most popular app store. I wish more high-profile apps would launch with iOS and Android in mind instead of just iOS, us Android users love cool apps too.
- tommaxwell 13y agoI'm actually quite happy with the app parody we're reaching. Most, if not all, of the apps on my Galaxy Nexus home-screen are available on both platforms.
- codeslubber 13y agoHilarious slip. Think you meant parity.
- tommaxwell 13y agoWell shit, just noticed this. :p
- acchow 13y ago> app parody My thoughts exactly on most Android apps :p (I say this as current Android user, ex-iPhone user, and an ex-Googler).
- sgarman 13y agoReally surprised they are getting away with 4.0 and later. That would be like a dream come true for me to make an app that only supports those versions.
- farnsworth 13y agoPre-4.0 is down to about a 1/3 these days (http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html) but it's also probably the 1/3 least likely to use Vine.
- savszymura 13y agoI'm in the 1st 1/3, but not the 2nd.
- jelled 13y agoAs an android user I'm glad I can finally contribute meaningful content such as this https://vine.co/v/b36jXQnxpQF https://vine.co/v/b36jXQnxpQF
- hkmurakami 13y agoI had thought that Vine was something akin to Google Hangouts until now. So now I know instead that it is a simple to use, high quality animated gif generator... Which I guess isn't such a bad thing. It certainly has entertainment value (I'm not really of the camp that believes that every company has to make world-changing products)
- farnsworth 13y agoI wouldn't think of it that way, more like Twitter for video sharing. By adding an arbitrary limit to what you can share - 140 characters for Twitter, 6.5s for Vine - and removing all friction between making the thing and sharing it, it removes the pressure of feeling like you need to make something good or polished, and you're more likely to share.
- cageface 13y agoMobile has gone way too far in this direction IMO. Making it easier to share mostly means not only that people post a ton of crap but they're too ADD to take the time to understand and appreciate content with more substance. Stuff like this dumbs us down.
- nasalgoat 13y agoSounds like Keek, which has been doing it for 2 years already.
- devcpp 13y agoPeople wanted GIFs with sound, they got GIFs with sound.
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- JoeCortopassi 13y agoVine seems awesome, but it has a fundamental issue that I just can't get past: I can't easily add my friends from Facebook. Now that isn't Vine's (or Twitter's) fault, it's due to Facebook's new policies[1], a policy that was nearly too late and required them to buy out Instagram. I don't know how a company can help someone find their current Facebook friends, and match that with users of their social network, but it is one of the essential cogs[2] to usurp Facebook as the dominant social network - [1] "You may not use Facebook Platform to promote, or to export user data to, a product or service that replicates a core Facebook product or service without our permission" https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ (section I.10) [2] Finding existing friends is only one of the essential parts to growing a vibrant social network. You also need a stable and clear platform for people to communicate/share, and a novel feature/s to give people an excuse to try it out (e.g. Facebooks was more pics and tagging, G+ was circles/hangouts, Instagram was filters, etc).
- jcfrei 13y agowhat's also really annoying, is that there's no way to search just by username; in case you dont want connect via fb or twitter at all.
- pjjw 13y agothere is. it's search by username. unless you're talking about android, where the answer is "real soon now!"
- GhotiFish 13y agoI find that an interesting contrast to my position. If anything even mentions facebook I avoid it. Social network integration to me is a privacy concern, and it's overuse a social liability.
- arrowgunz 13y agoEwww!!!
- the1 13y agoThis app is incompatible with your Virgin Mobile LGE VM670.
- mikeevans 13y agoSomeone already managed to upload the full music video of "Never Gonna Give You Up", but apparently Twitter asked the user to take it down: https://twitter.com/ws/status/341684952276029442 https://twitter.com/ws/status/341684952276029442
- qwertzlcoatl 13y agoIs there a possibilty to make vines private for a personal travel diary? It would be really handy.
- mrtimo 13y agoagreed. would love a tool like this. would use it to make something like this: http://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_kuriyama_one_second_every_day.html http://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_kuriyama_one_second_every_day...
- qwertzlcoatl 13y agoI've got three random followers the first day I setup a vine account, even though I had no vines uploaded yet. I really don't want every vine I make to be shared publicly. This definitely limits my usage of this app.
- joebob 13y agoInteresting
- bostonvaulter2 13y agoCan someone explain what the use case of vine is? Why would I want to use it?
- craftkiller 13y agoLooks to me like they're replacing GIFs. Short clips, muted by default. If they succeed this will be a welcome change for the internet because video compression has advanced significantly since the days of GIFs.
- Smudge 13y agoIt's more of a tweet-like approach to posting videos. The way I see most of my friends using the service is as a companion to Instagram, when they want to express a moment in a series of small video clips instead of in a single photo. I suppose you could call that "replacing GIFs" but it's more like YouTube than it is like Geocities.
- wcfields 13y agoThere were a few companies that attempted to do this ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/04/after-its-12-seconds-of-fame-12seconds-tv-fizzles-out/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/04/after-its-12-seconds-of-fam... ) but Vine got it right: * Timing: More people have camera phones / 3G/4G/LTE * Aping the existing Instagram structure for the news feed * Probably initially used AWS backend for cheap storage * Native App focus first and foremost * Immediate acquisition by Twitter
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- IvyMike 13y agoIt's little video snippets, 7s max. They don't always click, but when they do, it feels like you're catching flashes of someone else's memory. One advantage is your friends will not watch another one of your uncut boring vacation videos. But they might still watch your vines, since they're so short.
- jere 13y agoI've been waiting for this. Now, only if a single one of the android phones had a decent camera, I'd be in business.
- BrainScraps 13y agoDoes anyone else find this app sort of overwhelming? Not necessarily in a bad way either. I remember when my boss showed me a flurry of vines from her trip to Washington DC, I found myself feeling a bit disoriented as I tried to catch up with the rapidly switching contexts of each video. The same things happens to me when I'm scrolling through a feed. It's strange to me that it doesn't happen with pictures, but I can only describe it as being teleported through the globe in rapid-fire mode. Am I just an old fogey at the ripe old age of 31?
- jay_m 13y agoNo I feel the same way at age 21. It's quite hard to follow the quick-cutting nature of most videos. The ones I tend to like the most are comedy videos that have really quick setups and punchlines.
- fakeer 13y agoPainfully slow and clunky non-native app. Crashed thrice on my Galaxy Nexus 4.2.2. Closed it. Not using as of now. Guess, I'll wait for a few updates or patches before uninstalling. Or maybe I'll reinstall after it's stable enough. By the way, I don't think there's a way to browse Vine on the web, is it? App had it seems pre-subscribed to some of the users/streams/or-vines-maybe, because my feed is not empty and I don't see a way to empty it and then maybe subscribe to users/handles I would find fitting to my taste(I doubt that seeing all the animations).
- spullara 13y agoYou might try http://www.vpeeker.com http://www.vpeeker.com for an overwhelming web experience.
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- petarb 13y agoit's way to difficult to find your friends on the Android version, especially when you can't search by username
- spullara 13y agoAmazing how fast Vine has grown since it launched (in January), from Mary Meeker's report on the internet: http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trends-2013/18 http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trend...
- Aissen 13y agoYet another app that can access all your contacts and potentially steal/spam your adressbook. I know this is standard practice on iOS, but it really isn't acceptable.
- jpswade 13y agoI don't think many apps are really in the business of being evil. I don't really understand this unfounded paranoia that apps are designed by evil people to do evil things.
- padwan 13y ago"Better safe than sorry"
- mapleoin 13y agoThat's not entirely the point. Most of the news we've seen here during the past years are about people breaking into these apps' (sometimes improperly secured) servers and then suddenly having access to all this private data about millions of users.
- EnderMB 13y agoMaybe I'm just an entitled jerk, but I get slightly annoyed when a popular app decides to limit itself to a single platform, and then release later. I subconsciously didn't bother with Instagram because it took so long to get onto Android, and to be honest even though I like Vine it's been out for a while now and to be honest I doubt I'll bother downloading it unless I feel a real urge to use it.
- savszymura 13y agoIt almost seems to be a "marketing" "strategy", designed to re-ignite interest.
- nc 13y agoIt's hard enough figuring out a product in the early days, even harder if you've got to support multiple platforms.
- EnderMB 13y agoThere are numerous mobile agencies around the world today, making apps for simultaneous release on multiple platforms. I don't buy this argument when we're talking about large teams with dedicated design and development teams for each platform. Vine probably had the resources to work on an Android version, but a decision was made to support iOS only from the start.
- Adirael 13y agoI find programming for iOS easier. I also think the target market on iOS is better quality than the Android one, despite of raw market share they are a lot of small and underpowered Android devices out of there. If I were creating an startup with a mobile app I would definitely launch on iOS first, test the waters and see how that goes. If it works then I would start thinking about launching in other platforms.
- EnderMB 13y agoWhile true, there is little stopping a team from supporting a set of high-powered Android devices. The difference between Vine and a startup are obvious. Vine has teams for iOS, Android, and specific design, whereas a startup typically starts off with one or two devs at most. Twitter are known for being iOS fans, so they were always going to tailor their product towards iOS.