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Of the Apple devices, iPhone 4 and 4s dominate. This tells me that either the data is old; or more recent device users (5, 5s, 6) don't upload to Flickr as much

Of the Apple devices, iPhone 4 and 4s dominate. This tells me that either the data is old; or more recent device users (5, 5s, 6) don't upload to Flickr as much any more.

pronoiac 12y ago
The iPhone 4 is from 2010, the 4s from 2011, and Instagram came out in late 2010. These may be connected. Gizmodo called it pretty much abandoned in 2012: http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-... though that was before Marisa Mayer took over as Yahoo CEO.
- ghaff 12y ago
  The Flickr is dead meme is overdone. At least according to this data https://www.flickr.com/photos/franckmichel/6855169886/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/franckmichel/6855169886/ is hasn't really been growing but it still has lots of photos uploaded. I haven't studied the types of cameras used for flickr photos recently but I suspect it tends to skew toward higher-end cameras while phone photos are more likely to end up elsewhere--of course, there are a lot of phone photos.
  - pronoiac 12y ago
    I just checked that Flickr graph, and the ceiling is 70 million photos per month. I just checked, and Instagram boasts 70 million photos per day.[1] So while Flickr may be growing in, say, photos per month, its share overall, year-over-year is ... not good. [1] http://instagram.com/press/ http://instagram.com/press/
    - ghaff 12y ago
      The uses are very different. Note that Flickr does charge for Pro accounts--don't know what share of photos that covers on the site. That said, it's fair to say that Instagram (and Facebook and some others) have captured the casual photography sharing market and Flickr could probably have done better there. While it's true that sites like Smugmug cater even more toward serious use, I'm sure Flickr/Yahoo would have liked to have had a broader and more mainstream base.

Of the Apple devices, iPhone 4 and 4s dominate. This tells me that either the data is old; or more recent device users (5, 5s, 6) don't upload to Flickr as much any more.

pronoiac 12y ago

The iPhone 4 is from 2010, the 4s from 2011, and Instagram came out in late 2010. These may be connected. Gizmodo called it pretty much abandoned in 2012: http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-... though that was before Marisa Mayer took over as Yahoo CEO.

ghaff 12y ago
The Flickr is dead meme is overdone. At least according to this data https://www.flickr.com/photos/franckmichel/6855169886/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/franckmichel/6855169886/ is hasn't really been growing but it still has lots of photos uploaded. I haven't studied the types of cameras used for flickr photos recently but I suspect it tends to skew toward higher-end cameras while phone photos are more likely to end up elsewhere--of course, there are a lot of phone photos.
- pronoiac 12y ago
  I just checked that Flickr graph, and the ceiling is 70 million photos per month. I just checked, and Instagram boasts 70 million photos per day.[1] So while Flickr may be growing in, say, photos per month, its share overall, year-over-year is ... not good. [1] http://instagram.com/press/ http://instagram.com/press/
  - ghaff 12y ago
    The uses are very different. Note that Flickr does charge for Pro accounts--don't know what share of photos that covers on the site. That said, it's fair to say that Instagram (and Facebook and some others) have captured the casual photography sharing market and Flickr could probably have done better there. While it's true that sites like Smugmug cater even more toward serious use, I'm sure Flickr/Yahoo would have liked to have had a broader and more mainstream base.