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Apple Marketing SVP Phil Schiller Thinks Instagram "Jumped The Shark" After Android Launch?

sentinelsx said:
Mainstream. Huh. So the app was not mainstream when it was used by all the iPhone users which outnumber android users by something like 10 to 1 here in Toronto? Yesterday i got on a bus and 17 people were using iPhones out of 31. 2 androids, rest blackberries and feature phones. What exactly is mainstream?

Are people also suggesting that there were no stupid pictures on instagram when it was iOS only? So how come i cringe every time i see some food or shoes pictures from some of my co-workers from their iPod touches? Surely that doesn't run android.
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Do you really take the time to survey everybody on the bus?
 
stupid, stupid post that it jumped the shark...

Anyone with an IQ who really understands the concept of JTS knows it happened when FB bought them. Now we get to see photos of mom's cats!

Android didn't ruin it and the quality of net photos won't change as few consumers look at non-friend photos...it has always been about sharing, like all photo services...few people truly enjoy the open community images.
 
Phil can't possibly use a service that exists on another platform. It's basically in his contract.
(not that he knows the terms of his contract by heart, but you know, he can probably google them)
 
Sixtafoua said:
Phil can't possibly use a service that exists on another platform. It's basically in his contract.
(not that he knows the terms of his contract by heart, but you know, he can probably google them)
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Phil looking like he "ate the shark" last time I saw him in SFO. Little on the portly side.
 
There are twitter accounts that were originally fun to follow, but now that there's too much noise, I stopped following them.

Similarly, in Instagram, the change in the signal to noise ratio Phil referenced is totally true. So, he deleted an app he doesn't really use any more. Is this really a point of contention? Sheesh.
 
I cannot stand the stupid filtered shots my friends post on FB. It has become nothing short of an annoying fad for people turned schmucks. It is a worthless gadget without any value whatsoever.
 
instgram jump shark

one thing I have always loved about our Apple community is the fact that we do things differently in small numbers and are effective at it. now with instagram now going public and with Facebook omg has now become virgin gone experienced prostitute and I for one will not be going back for that sex. so.....of course i deleted it too :apple:
 
I was one of the first 25 million people on Instagram, waaaaaay before it was even cool. That was back when having an app on an iPhone meant something.:rolleyes: What a moron.
 
carboncow said:
Anyone with an IQ who really understands the concept of JTS knows it happened when FB bought them. Now we get to see photos of mom's cats!
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Mom's cats? What about crazy cat people that spam Reddit and are too young to be mothers! :D
 
war eagle said:
No. You could really see some cool pictures on Instagram when it first came out. Now you have to filter through mounds of garbage to see good pics.

flickr explore is what instagram used to be for me.
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I agree I discovered IG thru using tumblr. I thought finally I had something to express my creative side. it really sucks that instagram got so popular and became another facebook & twitter. It's probably gonna go the way of Myspace and twitter full of naked girls and spam... and the 12 year old comments are stupid.. It was a great app when it wasn't popular...
 
protesting Instagram

Protesting Facebook's recent changes on Instagram
http://web.stagram.com/p/175463947407346363_1656681

Please read the comments there

Sad. Popular on IG does not have anything to do with quality!
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Junk!! Get a Facebook account If you want to share what you ate and what you chose to wear today.
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The popular page is depressing.... Before I was kid of sad I had never made it to it but lately it has gotten so horrible that I guess I'm good with I now. 90% of the pics on the popular page are nothing special or interesting... I feel I'm in tweeter or Facebook! Ugh!
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I agree... When I first started IG there were so many great photos and now you are lucky to see 2 real photos posted.. And it's just getting worse. My photos used to make popular but I don't remember the last time and it doesn't bother me anymore
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and a lot of more...

And facebook did this to Instagram, they really changed the pop page formula.

So, yea, "jumped the shark" (but i am not talking about android - it is facebook)

And a lot of people started to protest this today.
 
A couple things....

First of all, I was throwing possible scenarios out there of what PHIL might have been thinking. These are not necessarily MY beliefs. (I clarify that because at least one person on here couldn't comprehend that and started calling me an "elitist" and all sorts of other things.)

Second, I have no argument that there are better cameras on SOME cellphones on the market than what's in an iPhone. But my reasoning for what I said had more to do with the "low end" part of the market. Android, being a free OS that ANY manufacturer can use on any hardware they like, winds up on some REALLY poor quality handsets with 1.3 or 2.1 megapixel cameras, no flash, and poor focusing capabilities. The Kyocera Zio would be one model that comes to mind.

brdeveloper said:
With my N8, I can say the same thing about iPhone's camera. So it's basically pure elitism when you say that Android phones have sub-par cameras or that Instagram would produce worse results on cheaper cameras. Instagram makes pictures look as if they were taken with a cheap film camera, that is, it basically turns modern cheap pictures into vintage cheap pictures. It's not rocket science.
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sentinelsx said:
Really? Unless you are staring at the floor all the time, how hard is it to know what others are using right in your face?
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I usually pay very little attention to the phones people are using as it's not that interesting. Seems kind of boring to be playing "spot the phone manufacturer" when their is so much more going on in the world than what is held in a bus rider's hand.
 
"Yeah, some of us - like myself at Apple - are just a little bit ahead of the curve, is all.... "

Translation: Enter the next fad photo-app for uber-trendy people with no creative talent!
 
KnightWRX said:
They have ? You mean a computer is not a device that takes input, processes it and provides output and storage anymore ?

What has it evolved into then ?
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It has evolved into an abstract device that lets me create music, documents, and art. It's an item that stores my family's photos and video. In other words, the term computer no longer exclusively refers to "an electronic device that performs computations."

Only tech geeks, nerds, and professional IT specialists like us view "computing" as what you describe. The average user, especially those conforming to Apple's vision of "computing" for the masses, does not care or think about terms like I/O, what Gigahertz actually refers to, and how exactly a hard-drive stores data.

Even your description of "computer" is evolved from its original, mathematical definition of "item that computes or calculates". The "computer" has changed, and so have we, in our use of the term.
 
melendezest said:
It has evolved into an abstract device that lets me create music, documents, and art. It's an item that stores my family's photos and video. In other words, the term computer no longer exclusively refers to "an electronic device that performs computations."

Only tech geeks, nerds, and professional IT specialists like us view "computing" as what you describe. The average user, especially those conforming to Apple's vision of "computing" for the masses, does not care or think about terms like I/O, what Gigahertz actually refers to, and how exactly a hard-drive stores data.

Even your description of "computer" is evolved from its original, mathematical definition of "item that computes or calculates". The "computer" has changed, and so have we, in our use of the term.
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You are using the term computer to broadly. What you want to say is personal devices.
 
Derpage said:
I usually pay very little attention to the phones people are using as it's not that interesting. Seems kind of boring to be playing "spot the phone manufacturer" when their is so much more going on in the world than what is held in a bus rider's hand.
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Usually, not much is going on during the morning commutes except for the temptation to go back and sleep.
 
He thought it "jumped the shark" after it became available on Android, I can't image what sea animal he thought it jumped when Reels got introduced.
 
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