iPhone fanbois enraged by Instagram's Android triumph Photo-bleaching camera app Instagram has notched up more than a million downloads in its first 24 hours on sale in the Android store. But the rush of new fandroids posting sepia-toned snaps of their breakfast has pissed off Apple fanbois, who have moaned that the pic-sharing side of the app is becoming too crowded. Instagram …
Actually real programmers would say something to the effect of:
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But of course it would vary dependent upon their platform.
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Instagram wasn't popular with iPhone owners because it was any good (both iPhone and Android have the vastly superior Pixel-o-matic), it was because it was exclusive to them.
All the iphone dickheads will now move onto something else to proclaim as the best thing since sliced bread, the only criteria is that it needs to be iOS exclusive....
And with Android, the intents allow you to share application data with any web service you want.
Why would I want all my friends on G+ or Facebook to have to sign up to a ***ANOTHER** service just so they can view my hipster picture of downgraded and scratchy photos?
The answer is, I don't want them too, i'm not that self-centered...
Some people consider taking pictures "art". I consider it taking an f-ing picture that any idiot with a camera and no skill could do.
Same with "modern art" which consists of random splatters of paint that sell for thousands of dollars. There are few artists left, the rest of them are self centered idiots.
> Some people consider taking pictures "art". I consider it taking an f-ing picture that any idiot with a camera and no skill could do.
Some people consider this fad for applying paint onto canvas in such a manner as to create lifelike or abstract images to be "art". Sure, some people may be much better at it that others but that hardly makes them "artists", does it?
Personally I say that if it ain't carved in stone, it ain't art.
They're turning their phones into Holgas without paying about £25 for a camera that was originally specifically designed to be profitable at something like 50p. And then they're saving money on not having to find somewhere to develop all that lovely medium format film.
Why do they want a Holga in the first place? Just for fun, I imagine.
Just as the habitat and breeding grounds of the lesser spotted jumping vole need to be protected and prevented from being overun, lest we lose this fascinating and puzzling creature; then perhaps the habitat (not sure about breeding grounds) of the iPhone user need to be preserved and protected from alien incursion. I don't think it's too much to ask that some apps be restricted to iPhone-only use, as part of a managed preservation effort.
"Combining the human desire to document the cuteness of their pets with a series of colour filters which make the resulting crap photos look good"
I guess you meant
"Combining the human desire to document the cuteness of their pets with a series of colour filters which make the resulting photos look crap "
Love my Galaxy 10.1. Hate the sheer bloody lack of any apps I want for it. Every time I find something of genuine use I find it's only on Apple so I have to get it for my iPhone instead.
Guess that will upset fans of both sides. It reminds me of how I pointed out to an Acorn Archimedes owning friend in the mid 90's he had the best machine on the market with the worst software support. Possibly the most frustrating combination really.
This application has access to the following:
Hardware controls
take pictures and videos
Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This allows the app at any time to collect images the camera is seeing.
Your location
fine (GPS) location
Access fine location sources such as the Global Positioning System on the tablet, where available. Malicious apps may use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power. Access fine location sources such as the Global Positioning System on the phone, where available. Malicious apps may use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power.
Network communication
full Internet access
Allows the app to create network sockets.
Your personal information
read contact data
Allows the app to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your tablet. Malicious apps may use this to send your data to other people. Allows the app to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your phone. Malicious apps may use this to send your data to other people.
Storage
modify/delete USB storage contents modify/delete SD card contents
Allows the app to write to the USB storage. Allows the app to write to the SD card.
System tools
prevent tablet from sleeping prevent phone from sleeping
Allows the app to prevent the tablet from going to sleep. Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
retrieve running apps
Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. Malicious apps may discover private information about other apps.
Pure FUD.
take pictures and videos
- Duh, it's a photo app for fucksakes.
fine (GPS) location
- Photo Geotagging (but only if you have GPS enabled).
Network communication / full Internet access
- How else is it going to get the photos online? Put them in a fucking envelope and mail them?
read contact data
- Presumably the app has some function for sending photos by email or MMS?
modify/delete USB storage contents modify/delete SD card contents
- Can't save your photos without that, can you?
prevent tablet from sleeping prevent phone from sleeping
- To stop the phone going into standby while you frame your shot.
retrieve running apps
- Nope, that one is a mystery. Though I expect someone cleverer than me could explain why this might be needed.
Chances are the iPhone app also requires these permissions - the only difference being that Apple don't tell you about it.
"Presumably the app has some function for sending photos by email or MMS"
If they'd hired an Android developer then they'd know to use Intents to send pictures by email or MMS. They could also use the same method to send to Facebook, Twitter, G+ and anything else you can think of, instead of limiting their users to just a few networks (and, as I've seen on other iOS ports, asking them to enter their passwords into the app).
So let me see if I get this?
A service slows down due to increased usage.
Some people on the internet are less than eloquent.
Reg writes article with 'Apple' in the title to increase advertising revenue?
Maybe we should have a 'news' section on the reg so we can filter out the idiot baiting.
(Yes, I know, I'm one too, doesn't make it taste nice though.)
@ david
El reg still loves Android. Just look at the daily/weekly coverage of Android games and apps.
IMHO they should devote at least the same amount of energy in native european tech (like Symbian which used to be brit). Then the UK IT-landscape shouldn't be such a wasteland.
Because lets be honnest. The Uk created the very best IT consumer systems and lost them all (Acorn computers LTD, Psion, Epoc/Symbian... even the only original PC clone manufacturer ever to exist (the UK firm, Apricot) is gone. How lame is that.
And now the only thing a UK IT website can do is make propaganda for yet one US IT system counteracting that other US IT system. Oh dear.
Really, what is the point of this app? As mentioned by other comentards, Android has a lot of better photo apps with lots more filters, and integration with social networks is a breeze. All a social networking app needs to do is to register an intent (which Instagram doesn't do, BTW) to be able to receive media and share it on the network.
This app might make sense on the jesus phone, but on Android? What's the point?
I suspect it has a lot to do with utilization of social networking. On my own FB feed, fanbois tend to be more hooked into sharing everything than anyone else. People see all these photos with "via Instagram" added to the bottom - the old crappy film style appeals to their sense of nostalgia, so they head to the Android Market to look for it and it is not to be found.
They don't think beyond that to look for a similar app that will do everything Instagram does and more, just like they don't think to go beyond installing a different OS as an alternative to Windows. It just doesn't enter their heads.
They also have friends with iPhones asking "Do you have Instagram?", rather than "Do you have an app that lets you take photo's and retro-filter them?" Fanbois are much more brand-aware than fandroids are... I tend to share what I can do with my phone rather than name the app I'm using (unless asked).
So the moment Instagram hits Android, they're all downloading it, upsetting their hipster friends who liked being part of an envious and exclusive club (which was basically available to everyone all along).
Android just passed 50% marketshare this month. Android is now the majority platform. Apple fanbois are going to have to get used to their phones being a minority player, just like their computers are. That's not necessarily a bad thing; the Mac is a high end niche player, and increasingly, the iPhone is becoming one too.
I think you may be behind the times — Android has been the most popular platform for a couple of years; that is now also has a simple majority of the market doesn't really change that, especially since the losses of RIM and Nokia are being sucked up by both the Android manufacturers and Apple. So far Apple hasn't lost any market share, it's just that Android phones have acquired it much more quickly.
I guess it's a comedown for the Apple-or-nothing set from the iPod experience, but they can just switch their attention to tablets for a couple of years.
Just a thought here. Isn't the whole point of posting photos online to get them to the widest possible audience? And didn't the potential audience for a photo posted to Instagram just about double overnight?
This is a *bad* thing? I guess it's not really about the photography after all, and is just about being able to pretend they're better than everyone else. How sad.
I had no interest in trying Instagram until the iPhone users on Twitter started saying such cheerfully joyous things as "I wish Android users would die a slow painful death" - then.... well my HTC One X arrives tomorrow (I Hope) so I might just have to download Instagram and take a picture of everything I see - like blades of grass or a drawing pin and upload all those pics one after the other..... tagged with #TeamiPhone of course - for the ultimate joke. To be serious for a moment though - instagram did a good job getting iPhone users interested in photography, but unfortunately it got iPhone users interested in photography - that's why cartoons like this exist:
http://endlessorigami.com/2011/09/20/photography-job-interview/
I'M BACK
I see all the gutless wimps are all posting anonymously still.
BAN IT
if you won't put your name to it,don't bother.
for those who where concerned,no visits from plod or men with with backward jacke:ts,or rednecks with baseball bats nor any from twats with Volvo.
all you Jesus phoners,anyone remember MySpace,a.o.l or Compaq ? .
it will be interesting to see what apple turn into by 2018-2020 what goes up CAN go back down
Smart move on the part of Instagram. More users = More adds being seen = More $$$. Unfortunately they weren't ready for it. A large influx of additional users. Doesn't matter what platform these users are operating. Add a few thousand iOS users overnight and the results would have been the same.
Probably a whole collection of folks over to Instagram right now ripping their hair out trying to get more servers put together and on-line to handle the load. They either didn't realize just how many Android using customers they would get, and/or how quickly they would join the service.
apple should be allowed to take over.
all apple users should only be able to interact with apple web and services and should be impossible for apple devices to connect with the rest of the proper inter web thingy.
the ultimate walled garden.
if you buy an apple product you should be forced to live work and die in special walled areas cut of from all but essential services (charged at 10x outside price)
inbreeding will soon solve the problem,lots of em already half way there.
If I had realised how much this would piss off iPhone users I would have got it before now. Now all I need to do in line up that pocketful of spare change I have, some bits of fluff hanging out he rear of my extractor fan and some kitty litter to photograph from various angles and I'm good to go. Then I'll be off to the shed to see what other completely useless crap is there and grab a little snapshot of it. Ahhhh... The lengths one has to go to in order to annoy others about something they need not be annoyed. Still, I have to grab whatever amusement I can for myself these days. All I need now is something that will bug the shit out of Droid users then I can get my sons iPhone into action.......... or am I just suffering from grumpy old man syndrome.
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