I gotta say, I was surprised by how little shark was actually involved in the shark jumping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpraJYnbVtE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpraJYnbVtE
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Apple Marketing SVP Phil Schiller Thinks Instagram "Jumped The Shark" After Android Launch?
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Dallas jumped the shark when the last season turned out to be a dream
X-Files jumped the shark when Mulder left
etc etc etc
Well, it is an example of a company that was only iOS and found great success on the platform. Kind of makes me wonder if they were working with them on something and this killed it? Hence the extra emotion.
edit: people already explained it
anyway, that term is getting soooo overused its annoying and doesnt even make any sense in most cases
So jumped the shark has jumped the shark?
So what?
It may be true that the sheer numbers of people now make it very difficult to find cool photographs. I'm not sayin' that's so, but it's what a lot of people report. But don't be so protective of these guys and the nasty thing that Schiller said; Instagram has a billion dollars to drown their sorrows.
It may be true that the sheer numbers of people now make it very difficult to find cool photographs. I'm not sayin' that's so, but it's what a lot of people report. But don't be so protective of these guys and the nasty thing that Schiller said; Instagram has a billion dollars to drown their sorrows.
First, you give Snow Leopard to MobileMe users to upgrade to iCloud. Why give free to them? Is the rest of the public an idiot to have purchased a copy of snow leopard? Why not just sell them Lion, straight away?
Second you screw up your consumer for a goddamn defective MacBook Pro, trying to screw him with your $100B bullishness in a court of law.
And now you talk about how Instagram should've just stayed on iOS and not have shown up on Android.
****ing pathetic, I say.
This is not the Apple, I knew. This is not the Apple I want. Some people told me - power was wrong; I didn't care. I thought Apple could handle and **** not, they absolutely cannot.
What a shame.
Second you screw up your consumer for a goddamn defective MacBook Pro, trying to screw him with your $100B bullishness in a court of law.
And now you talk about how Instagram should've just stayed on iOS and not have shown up on Android.
****ing pathetic, I say.
This is not the Apple, I knew. This is not the Apple I want. Some people told me - power was wrong; I didn't care. I thought Apple could handle and **** not, they absolutely cannot.
What a shame.
I don't get Instagram at all.
When was the last time anyone saw a 'normal' photo on it, without a Sepia/Monochrome/etc filter applied?
When was the last time anyone saw a 'normal' photo on it, without a Sepia/Monochrome/etc filter applied?
A billion dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A TRILLION dollars.
...welcome to the bubble.
Oh really? So basically you are by your choice, following Android folks who have those pictures? Did someone hack your phone or force you to follow those people?
Some of my android mates have great pics and I like them. I don't see any clutter. If I will, I'll unfollow. What's the issue?
I sure will. I'm a big Apple fan and a lot over here have attributed my feelings as that of a fanboy but some of the recent disclosures including the e-book controversy have surprised me a lot.
Pathetic.
EDIT: Actually I won't. He did something great. He's got all right and time to smile and be happy.
I think Apple jumped the shark when they allowed instagram on the app store.
Hopefully this is just something Schiller thinks and not something that the majority of Apple employees are thinking - because if it is, it paints a really bad picture of them as a company IMHO.
Hopefully this is just something Schiller thinks and not something that the majority of Apple employees are thinking - because if it is, it paints a really bad picture of them as a company IMHO.
This is a reference to a Happy Days episode where Fonzie jumped a shark. It is a silliness threshold that smells the end of an endeavor.
In this case I have to say while it did jump the shark, it did so into the warm embrace of $1b in cash and stock, which will appreciate as well. And a place in takeover greatness.
12 guys, no revenue, no profit, $1B.
That's $29 per user at the moment the deal closed. Now that just rocks!
If I were Apple I would claim credit for creating value for developers and invite them to WWDC.
Rocketman
edit: people already explained it
anyway, that term is getting soooo overused its annoying and doesnt even make any sense in most cases
Which equates to...Jumped the shark has jumped the shark.
This is a reference to a Happy Days episode where Fonzie jumped a shark. It is a silliness threshold that smells the end of an endeavor.
In this case I have to say while it did jump the shark, it did so into the warm emberace of $1b in cash and stock, which will appreciate as well. And a place in takeover greatness.
12 guys, no revenue, no profit, $1B.
That's $29 per user at the moment the deal closed. Now that just rocks!
If I were Apple I would claim credit for creating value for developers and invite them to WWDC.
Rocketman
That's how any smart person would do. Not just dismiss them for their hardwork, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Mark Zuckeburg (sp?) has made one collosaly overpriced and stupid purchase. It stand to reason because he doesn't seem particularly bright, au contraire, in any of his statements. Facebook is only making money because it's shamelessly profiting on our private data by selling it to advertisers. Since its our lives and our data shouldn't we also have a say of how it's used? Why are users not allowed then to permanently delete their data?
http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html
http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html