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[SimleuqiR]

So it's just like consoles except it's just one side that's bitching.

People on Android wanted Instagram. What's wrong with that? They see a value in having the app - I don't blame them. So they can bitch to the developer all they want.

But not wanting an app to be available on all possible platforms makes zero sense to me.

 

[beje]

People on Android wanted Instagram. What's wrong with that? They see a value in having the app - I don't blame them. So they can bitch to the developer all they want.

But not wanting an app to be available on all possible platforms makes zero sense to me.

It's Final Fantasy XIII's "Square just shot themselves on the foot" all over again. Including the "now I don't want it anymore" crybabies.

 

[Altazor]

People on Android wanted Instagram. What's wrong with that? They see a value in having the app - I don't blame them. So they can bitch to the developer all they want.

But not wanting an app to be available on all possible platforms makes zero sense to me.

I think he was saying it was just the iOS side bitching

in any case, I agree with you.

 

[Blackhead]

10% of this thread has now been spent discussing one shitty iOS port that doesn't even include a widget.

Spoiler

I'm part ofthe problem

 

[Cudder]

count me as one of the people that don't "get" Instagram. why do I need ANOTHER social network to share photos when I can share photos on my existing networks?

 

[tino]

It's Final Fantasy XIII's "Square just shot themselves on the foot" all over again. Including the "now I don't want it anymore" crybabies.

But in FFXIII's case, it save them 50 hours going through the garbage that is FFXIII, so it's all worth it in the end.

I probably can make the same argument with Instagram too.

 

[_Isaac]

count me as one of the people that don't "get" Instagram. why do I need ANOTHER social network to share photos when I can share photos on my existing networks?

Yeah. I don't get the appeal.

 

[Bboy AJ]

count me as one of the people that don't "get" Instagram. why do I need ANOTHER social network to share photos when I can share photos on my existing networks?

Because it's just photos.

 

[Zeppu]

Do people even realize that with the latest stock gallery (ICS only I think) you can edit photos with pretty much all the shitty effects provided by Instagram?

Spoiler

Also, Vignette and Pixel-o-matic

 

[Good Job Bob]

Do people even realize that with the latest stock gallery (ICS only I think) you can edit photos with pretty much all the shitty effects provided by Instagram?

People don't use it for the filters, they use it to share photos and the filters are a plus.

 

[kinggroin]

ICS pretty much makes Instagram pointless to me. The stock camera has more filters, and can directly share to a wider range of services.

 

[Zeppu]

I guess I don't see the appeal to sharing to a network which is mostly only available to users of a particular app when I can share to other networks where I'm already connected to people I care about and don't necessarily have a smartphone can see/comment/etc.

Must be just me then.

 

[Good Job Bob]

I guess I don't see the appeal to sharing to a network which is mostly only available to users of a particular app when I can share to other networks where I'm already connected to people I care about and don't necessarily have a smartphone can see/comment/etc.

Must be just me then.

30 million users and counting.

 

[Zeppu]

30 million users and counting.

That's cause there's no built in sharing to whatever-you-like functionality in iOS so people could only share to what was available to them.

 

[Blackhead]

30 million users and counting.

Flickr has many more millions of users. Does anyone really care?

 

[kinggroin]

30 million users and counting.

Its a big focused community for sure, but most of my friends and family who use the service, will also share the same filtered pics on Facebook anyway. I imagine for many folks, the application can feel a bit redundant.

 

[Good Job Bob]

That's cause there's no built in sharing to whatever-you-like functionality in iOS so people could only share to what was available to them.

If you say so.

Flickr has millions of users. Does anyone really care?

No.

But people obviously care about Instagram, or have you missed the past few days?

 

[tfur]

That's cause there's no built in sharing to whatever-you-like functionality in iOS so people could only share to what was available to them.

That's really what it is... The lack of functionality of yesterday's popular phone technology, creating an ecosystem.

 

[Zeppu]

Flickr has many more millions of users. Does anyone really care?

Exactly. I can take pictures with whatever camera app I like, have the flickr app installed and share to that, or picasa, or facebook or twitter, or google+, or whatever I like.

 

[Good Job Bob]

That's really what it is... The lack of functionality of yesterday's popular phone technology, creating an ecosystem.

Considering people share photos to social networks all the time via their iPhones, I really fail to see how this is the case.

Exactly. I can take pictures with whatever camera app I like, have the flickr app installed and share to that, or picasa, or facebook or twitter, or google+, or whatever I like.

So can iOS users, they just have to go into the separate app to do so..and they tend to do just that.

 

[Zeppu]

Considering people share photos to social networks all the time via their iPhones, I really fail to see how this is the case.

So can iOS users, they just have to go into the separate app to do so..and they tend to do just that.

Wasn't your original point that people use instagram to share photos and not for the filters? Turns out that they can do so without it then. What's the point of having a middleman application to take pictures?

My original statements were, that:
1. Filters can be applied with the stock gallery app
2. I don't see the appeal of sharing to a restricted network

To which you replied that people use it mainly for sharing and not for the filters, and then proving it's simple to actually share to other networks without said application.

Again, I don't see the appeal.

 

[andycapps]

People saying that other apps offer more functionality or take better pictures are missing the point with Instagram. My pictures are still saved to my phone prior to putting them on Instagram. So the photos aren't affected. Instagram is more of a social network than anything. As far as why join another social network? Depends on what your interests are. I'm pretty into tattoos and the tattoo artist community have all moved on from Blackberries (obviously) and are all on Instagram constantly. Tons of friends are on there. So it's just an interesting way to share photos quickly. Reminds me of Tumblr mixed with Twitter. The app works really fast too, much smoother and quicker than Facebook.

 

[Good Job Bob]

Wasn't your original point that people use instagram to share photos and not for the filters? Turns out that they can do so without it then.

People apparently wanted a primarily photo based social network, Flickr wasn't catching on with mobile; Instagram did.

 

[luoapp]

Wasn't your original point that people use instagram to share photos and not for the filters? Turns out that they can do so without it then. What's the point of having a middleman application to take pictures?

My original statements were, that:
1. Filters can be applied with the stock gallery app
2. I don't see the appeal of sharing to a restricted network

To which you replied that people use it mainly for sharing and not for the filters, and then proving it's simple to actually share to other networks without said application.

Again, I don't see the appeal.

People are lazy, that's why.

 

[Zeppu]

People apparently wanted a primarily photo based social network, Flickr wasn't catching on with mobile; Instagram did.

I guess I would've had to have used it when everything was slightly more primitive than it is today to 'get it'. Taking into context that it's become a massive network (and perhaps people who switched from iOS to Android had missed it [or saw their iPhone owning friends use it between them]) I can see why people who had gotten used to using it as their primary photo sharing service would be delighted to get it on Android finally. I missed the bandwagon.

 

[Bboy AJ]

Wasn't your original point that people use instagram to share photos and not for the filters? Turns out that they can do so without it then. What's the point of having a middleman application to take pictures?

My original statements were, that:
1. Filters can be applied with the stock gallery app
2. I don't see the appeal of sharing to a restricted network

To which you replied that people use it mainly for sharing and not for the filters, and then proving it's simple to actually share to other networks without said application.

Again, I don't see the appeal.

It's a social network. That's the appeal. It displays photos taken by the community and does so in an elegant fashion. If you don't see the appeal, well, that's that. But that's the appeal.

 

[andycapps]

Anybody have a collage app that works with Instagram? Photo Grid doesn't save a large enough file size for Instagram.

 

[Zombie James]

Instagram got updated but I still can't import photos from anywhere (Gallery, Pixlr-o-matic), crashes immediately.

 

[andycapps]

Instagram got updated but I still can't import photos from anywhere (Gallery, Pixlr-o-matic), crashes immediately.

Interesting. No issues with that for me.. EVO 4G on MIUI.

 

[Zombie James]

Interesting. No issues with that for me.. EVO 4G on MIUI.

Vibrant running Euphoria RC2.1. I'll try a good ol' cache clear.

edit: Nope. Oh well.

 

[popeutlal]

Anyone try the new SwiftKey beta? Really impressive prediction tech.

vip.swiftkey.net/

 

[AndyD]

It is very nice. I really like the new layout with the big space bar and the holo theme. Works even better than X. Swype needs to step up its game majorly if it wants to remain competitive.

Swype 3 also available here per the forums, which are getting slammed:
http://bit.ly/HKAPLw

 

[Zombie James]

Figured out what the issue with Instagram importing was, turns out you have to disable GPU acceleration.

 

[AstroLad]

Speaking of insta, is there a good save/read later to instapaper app? There are a ton but all of them seem to have 3.5/4-star ratings but lots of "doesn't work" reviews. On a GN.

 

[moojito]

Speaking of insta, is there a good save/read later to instapaper app? There are a ton but all of them seem to have 3.5/4-star ratings but lots of "doesn't work" reviews. On a GN.

I'd give Taptu a try. I installed it today and it's pretty damn amazing.

 

[AstroLad]

Cool -- will that let me save web pages from browser to instapaper?

 

[Bboy AJ]

Speaking of insta, is there a good save/read later to instapaper app? There are a ton but all of them seem to have 3.5/4-star ratings but lots of "doesn't work" reviews. On a GN.

Papermill.

http://www.papermill.me/

 

[tino]

Speaking of insta, is there a good save/read later to instapaper app? There are a ton but all of them seem to have 3.5/4-star ratings but lots of "doesn't work" reviews. On a GN.

Readitlater

 

[Good Job Bob]

Cool -- will that let me save web pages from browser to instapaper?

Uh, just install the Instapaper bookmarklet to do that.

And if you need an app that's integrated with Instapaper, as Bboy AJ pointed out Papermill seems to be the best by far.

 

[AstroLad]

Uh, just install the Instapaper bookmarklet to do that.

And if you need an app that's integrated with Instapaper, as Bboy AJ pointed out Papermill seems to be the best by far.

how do i do that on GN? just started using these sorts of apps so still figuring out the simple stuff

 

[Jayayess1190]

how do i do that on GN? just started using these sorts of apps so still figuring out the simple stuff

The bookmarklet should work in the browser, I use Read It Later and the bookmarklet for it works on all Android browsers.

 

[Keyouta]

Is Kik a better cross-platform messenger than whatsapp? My friend wants to switch to it.

 

[zbeeb]

nuff said.

 

[Ocho]

Is Kik a better cross-platform messenger than whatsapp? My friend wants to switch to it.

I've been using it for a long time and I'd say it is indeed better. Messages are quick, you can upload an avatar, and the interface is pretty great on Android and iOS.

My only issue with the app is how it automatically scrolls to the bottom when you recieve a new message. Sometimes, in a group convo, this can be a deal breaker when you're trying to catch up.

 

[Bboy AJ]

The Twitter app Plume has been updated. It is Ice Cream Sandwich ready. Finally, it feels so much nicer. I prefer it over Boid.

 

[SimleuqiR]

The Twitter app Plume has been updated. It is Ice Cream Sandwich ready. Finally, it feels so much nicer. I prefer it over Boid.

Nice. I'm not much of a Twitter user, but I have family I fallow and converse through there. Might give it a go.

Talking about ICS...From Reddit:

Facebook ICS mock-up

Can you imagine?

 

[Fox318]

nuff said.

Isn't this because of an Apple patent?

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Nice. I'm not much of a Twitter user, but I have family I fallow and converse through there. Might give it a go.

Talking about ICS...From Reddit:



Can you imagine?

Why can't we have nice things?

 

[JoeFu]

Nice. I'm not much of a Twitter user, but I have family I fallow and converse through there. Might give it a go.

Talking about ICS...From Reddit:



Can you imagine?

holy crap that looks amazing.

 

[beje]

The Twitter app Plume has been updated. It is Ice Cream Sandwich ready. Finally, it feels so much nicer. I prefer it over Boid.

Does it have push notifications? At this rate, I will never abandon the official app because it's the only one I know which notifies mentions and DMs on complete real time with push, while all the rest use polling.