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Instagram Debuts On Android
redletterdave writes "Popular photo-sharing app Instagram, which has been one of the most popular social start-ups despite only being housed on a single platform (iOS), was finally released onto the Android ecosystem on Tuesday. The app, which boasts more than 10 million users and plenty of ways to stylize and share photos, is available as a free download from Google Play."
Soon, someone will create a social network app that limits posters to one short word, and/or one video of a douchebag face-planting into a tree. The public will embrace it with slavish devotion, every old fart on CNN will sign up for it in a desperate bid to show that they're still hip with the kids, and all subsequent public discourse will be reduced to exchanges like:
@ballz: Hey
@iluvvampires: Wsup?
@wolfCNN: Hello.
@hotgirl234: Yeah!
@Avenger938: Ha! [video of drunk guy running into tree on motorcycle]
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
Hosted, proprietary, social-media-based photo sharing is hardly news for nerds. We have FTP, SCP, HTTPS upload, and we know how to configure it TYVM.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I've been hearing about this for a while now - just installed it on my Droid Pro.
Lets see if it is worth the kerfuffle!
"Murderer? Well, that's a harsh word. I prefer to think of myself as a Mortality Technician."
What makes this app so special?
Now more people can post photos using those terrible filters!
twitter? Is that you?
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
My Android tablet doesn't have a camera... how does this help me?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
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None of us know everything. Therefore we're all naïve.
Instagram was nifty the first time I saw it... Oh, the halcyon days of photography. Now it is just played-out. Let it go, folks.
Cheers,
Matt
and more.
Youmustbenewhere.
i've used it on iOS a little. i know it does filters, but what is the purpose behind the following and sharing?
it seems that most of these social apps are so you can directly follow your fave celebrities on twitter and say how cool they are when they post a pic. instead of waiting for the monthly magazine with the stalkerazzi photos
Just today I was thinking "I feel like coding something but can't think of anything that would be reasonably novel, fun and - most importantly - effortless to implement".
If I implement that and become a multimillionaire, I will find out where you live, fly there and buy you a beer... Are we OK, IP-rights-wise?
Yay! Now I can make noisy, out-of-focus, lo-res photos even worse and share them with everyone on facebook from my Android and my iPhone!
it's just a bunch of sw-filters on your pics and easy way to post them up.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
What the fuck is the Internet?
Just checked Google Play and no Instagram yet.
Posting because i thought it was apt:
"Really hope someone manages to get a picture of the sky or some food now that Instagram is on android."
Well you can take your character limit and sho
...but then I realized the article itself was a factor of 3 off on the number of Instagram users.
From Instagram's own press release today, they have over 30 million users on their service, not 10 million. The citation for the 10 million number the article uses is an Instagram blog post from 6 months ago. Lazy journalism if they can't even take the time to read the press release for the topic they're writing about.
We would be very, very fortunate if the video was just of a drunk guy running into a tree on a motorcycle on CNN, especially when the contents of sites like tubgirl, lemonparty, two girls one cup, and goatse are still floating around.
There's a big push for Bring Your Own Device in schools and businesses. Given the things people use their own tech for, I can see a massive increase in the incidences of pornography showing up with BYOD in public spaces, meetings, and the like.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
No, Flutter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLZCy-_m3s
Now even more people can post like Zooey Deschanel....
That doesn't understand the appeal to this app. I've already got Vignette to do double the crappy hipster filtres that Instagram does; but Vignette gives me the option to customize and make my own.
Keep on knockin'
https://robbiecrash.me
I don't know how Google came up with "Play" as a new name. Granted, "iTunes" isn't much better, but at least there's a historical reason for that: once upon a time, it was used for organizing only music, and when theit store first came out, it only sold music. So iTunes grew naturally over time and the name got grandfathered in. If Apple were to start from scratch today with all their content but no name, there's no way they would have named it all "iTunes."
And if Google is really going to make a tablet and call it the Play also... ugh.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Oh god please let the IG users on Droids be less tweens/teenyboppers than the IG iPhone demographics. The popular pic page is already polluted to hell and back with the boy band pics, pedo fodder, and downright stupid shit. The ToS for IG states 13 years or older to use it. I swear at least 1/3rd of their users are under 13, given the garbage that makes it to the popular page.
It isn't.
There, just saved you a bunch of time and bother!
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
did i just download?
So basically IRC with higher latency.
Remember 1996? People pirated Photoshop and Kai's Power Tools, then everyone else mocked their photos for containing Lens Flare or Solarize. Or Watercolor.
Why is it that in 2012, people are trying to appear 'artistic' by passing their memories through the same filters everyone else uses? Where's the mockery?
Tangent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X71WXhOyWj8
Slashdot is just a blog with a comment section. How long have you been here?
I've been looking to install this to see what all the hype is about and because the Facebook app I work on at work can integrate with it. Unfortunately it's not compatible with my device and from what I've been reading in the comments of the Android news sites it's not compatible with a lot of other devices as well (including tablets like Toshiba Thrive, Acer A500/A100, ASUS Transformer Prime and some HTC, Samsung, and Motorola phones as well).
Totally lame. I don't usually see this many device incompatibility complaints for new apps.
Easy tiger - you can get down off the roof now.
It makes mundane photos look more interesting. It makes interesting photos more interesting. Some pics lend themselves very well to the Instagram treatment and do have artistic* merit. It makes older people feel nostalgic for the days when photos actually looked like that. It's easy for Joe Average to share photos using it without having to set up their own web server, install Linux on it, get Apache running, install MYSQL, install Wordpress, etc. (I know I know, you can do all that stuff easily without having to use an app like this; well done you tedious fucking know-it-alls).
*Art, for the benefit of the naysayers, evokes an emotion. If a photo looks a certain way that makes you feel excited, nostalgic, happy sad or any other emotion, then it has succeeded in becoming a piece of art. It may not have any monetary value to the Tate Gallery, but among friends and family it can mean a lot.
So why don't you all take your stuck up "I'm too cool for this app" attitudes and your artistic illiteracy back down to Mommy's basement. You're like the guy who said "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." when the iPod came out. Where's he now and where's Apple now? Can you tell me that? Huh? Huh? Well? Can ya?
Drill baby drill - on Mars
...gets from this story is that it's "just" a social media app, "just" a stupid way to put filters on your crappy cell phone pics.
Sure is. And it's going to make their founders mountains of cash. If it were so easy, why didn't you come up with it? Eh? Is making money beneath you, snobby Slashdot User?
hookers and grits.
Omg, rofl
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
Well you can take your character limit and sho
tl;dr (written by someone I know who can write)
longer than you, it seems.
and slashdot isn't being valued at 100mils+.
I mean, if instagram did surface analysis and sampled higher quality parts to pictures based on that or something similar, yeah I'd agree them to be worth 100mil+, but otherwise I'm pretty certain that the revolution will not be instagrammed.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
To misquote a movie I haven't even seen, "If you could have invented Instagram, you would have invented Instagram."
I use Instagram every day. It's fucking awesome.
And the developers didn't consider Android important enough to do an Android port until the iPhone app was just right.
longer than you, it seems.
Exactly. Slashdot has held your interest for 12 years or so with very pedestrian technology.
and slashdot isn't being valued at 100mils+.
Slashdot belongs to Geeknet, so wo can give it an actual valuation rather then have analysts guessing. Geeknet is worth 92.41 million. Less then Instagram, but in the same ball park.
I mean, if instagram did surface analysis and sampled higher quality parts to pictures based on that or something similar, yeah I'd agree them to be worth 100mil+
LOL! Companies aren't valued on how impressive their technology is. With free services, the value comes in how big the audience is and how susceptible they are to advertising.