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Microsoft Makes a Selfie App For the iPhone (theverge.com)
New submitter Nanmillerp sends word about Microsoft Garage's newest app which aims to take the best selfies possible. The Verge reports: "Microsoft's newest app for iOS isn't a piece of productivity software. No, it's a selfie app. Unambiguously called Microsoft Selfie, the product is designed to improve photo qualities like color balance, skin tone, and lighting for the most shareable shot possible. It's a more subtle version of Lumia Selfie, Microsoft's previous self-portrait app designed for Windows phones. On a deeper level, Microsoft Selfie appears to be just one of the many ways the company is using machine learning in everyday situations, similar to the software Microsoft released back April that would guess your age based on a photo. Microsoft Selfie's app description says it takes 'age, gender, skin tone, lighting, and many other variables into account' to help alter your self-portraits with 'intelligent enhancements.'"
You may as well be taking a picture at the DMV or getting a mugshot.
I, too, bury my head in the sand to hide from things I don't like. Sweet, sweet, echo chamber.
Will they be left behind?
What of the Rapture? Will you be ... LEFT BEHIND?
And how did that Kardashian bitch get a BEHIND SO BIG that it needs a toilet made especially for that?
It actually only takes pictures of the phone itself, because that's what the Microsoft engineers thought a "selfie app" should do.
Just what the world needs - MOAR SELFSLEEZE Hopefully this will be the last of the stupid ideas we'll hear about this year. Maybe their first innovation of next year will also be something else they think the world needs - better cat pictures! In 3D! And MICROSOFT EDGE browser integration. That reports everything back to the mother ship because CLOUD!
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
as a Verge deeply penetrates your ass.
Internet Explorer has nothing to do with this....
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Man, talk about a killer app.
1991 microsoft: we dominate every PC on the planet. weve crushed countless office competitors and even have a hand in CPUs. Java is a bloodbath. we crush all comers with embrace, extend, extinguish.
2015 microsoft: we layed off 26,000 employees and strike out hard, yearly, on phones and tablets. Apples profits, once laughable, now are five times ours. we lost 2.5 billion dollars in 2010. next year we lost another 700 million. The best we managed to do is put a voice assistant in windows and buy everyone even close to a television camera in the NFL a surface tablet, which is still constantly referred to as an ipad. That thing we used to not care about at all, Linux, is now the number 1 operating system and thats only taking into account cellphones. We sat idly by as one of the largest game distributors in the world rolled out almost ubiquitous support for this OS. no one uses our cloud or our appstore but make selfie apps now.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Micro who?
The selfie!
Me me me! Me! MEEEEEEEEE!
"Microsoft Selfish" - Finally an MS product accurately named
Table-ized A.I.
We need this because... People needed more encouragement to take the single most despised style of picture in all of human history?
And in other news, Microsoft has released a new app called "Fingernails On A Chalkboard" - Just swipe across the screen to play along with your favorite songs! And for the real connoisseurs, it comes with "styrofoam in a box" and "autotune" modes.
It must have tried to calculate my age
I, too, bury my head in the sand to hide from things I don't like. Sweet, sweet, echo chamber.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Micro who?
Have gnu, will travel.
Your micropenis.
Clippy sez "Hey there, that is a 50' cliff you're backing over, and due to your signal strength, I won't be able to upload this great selfie in time"
Can't argue with you. You're the resident cock expert.
You mean....the phone's camera?
I, too, bury my head in the sand to hide from things I don't like. Sweet, sweet, echo chamber.
So how is this better than the Camera app already on iOS? Or Instagram. It says it "takes into account" yada, yada, yada and makes enhancements. The strategy of this app to me seems like MS copying what Apple does but badly. For a long time, Apple has controlled what users can do and removes a lot of choice and customization in the OS and apps. Apple's philosophy has always been to simplify things for the average consumer. Some would disagree with this approach and want more options and control. The main difference was that the people who wanted more control used MS products as an alternative. If MS is mimicking Apple, they are only alienating their fans.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
What is a selfie app?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
It's an app that lets you app apps on App apps! Not like your LUDDITE software that only lets you take LUDDITE photos!
Apps!
Help ! we have an urgent need for your skills !
1. Who cares? iPhone has been able to take a selfie for years.
2. How is this 'news for nerds'?
3. Did Bing's photo search not have enough results, so they're pumping the numbers by leeching info?