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Blippy Reborn - GIF's on your iPhone
- dksf 13y agoWe're really excited to bring GIFs to the iPhone!
- akitchell 13y agoSlick tool -- Definitely amplifies the ability of anyone to create novel GIFs to share with friends. Something tells me there is a pretty big audience for this tool. I dig it!
- fragmede 13y agoAnimated GIF are the worse-is-better solution of moving images, yet I can't argue with their popularity.
- dksf 13y agowhat are the main problems with animated GIFs in your mind? for us being playable in just about every context on the web/mobile was really important
- spinlockmusic 13y agoOne problem that I can think of is that the palette for each frame is restricted to 255 colors. That being said, there really isn't any other widely-supported option at this point :-). I like the app concept! Nice work!
- abhayv 13y agoBlippy co-founder here. Yes, GIF is a really old format. We have to work a lot on optimizing for performance. Surprising that it is the only popular one that allowed any animation. Others like Animated PNG did not take off.
- fragmede 13y agoMost animated GIF 'players' have zero controls for play, pause, feedback for buffering. It doesn't handle audio, and file sizes are huge.
- dksf 13y agoyup, we had to tradeoff controls, buffering, audio, and filesize for ubiquity of consumption and simplicity of user experience (i.e. inline/autoplay). Have you tried gifs in an iMessage? They're really fun to add to your texting!
- brianbreslin 13y agoMy first thought was "what do automated sharing of purchases have to do with animated GIFs?"
- dksf 13y agohahaha... well, they're both silly ideas? :)