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

MacNut said:
If anything Apple jumped the shark when they became a mobile focused company.
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I don't understand why this comment is so popular. So, what? Do people think the future is bulky, noisy desktops?

The Air is a great computer. As are the MacBook Pros. And what would all of you do without your iPhones? And even if you don't have an iPhone, you cannot deny that it changed everything.

iPad? It's a lot easier to sell someone a $500 device than a $1200+ device. Especially annually. And that aside, the iPad is pretty great. I don't even travel with a notebook anymore.

It's not a personal insult. I just don't get why people like this comment so much.
 
war eagle said:
I don't blame him. Instagram is trash now. All I see is pictures of people's food and shoes all day.
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Yeah, I'm starting to agree. The quality has dropped but that's been in the last few months, even before the Android move, so he really has no argument here - in fact he has to blame his own customers for this. I mean, what he's talking about is blatant exclusivity, nice thoughts in the world of "equality" we're supposed to live in.
 
I'm going to have to side against Schiller here. It just sounds like a case of one of those people who won't listen to one of their favorite bands anymore because it became popular.

"Pfff, I've known of them for years before you even knew they existed."
 
First of all, this person is not using the term "jump the shark" correctly. Instagram has not been changed in any way by being made available on Android.

Second, this person comes off as an elitist prick who's sulking because his private community isn't so private anymore. Get over it.

If anything, Instagram can only be better if it's getting rid of pricks like him.
 
Winni said:
Because they actually think different. You know, not like the iPhone crowd.
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Oh so thats why it's topped 5 million downloads on Android? :rolleyes:

Personally this app is rubbish I don't get why people like it but it seems the Android crowd are just as clueless as the iPhone crowd with this app.
 
nsfw said:
I have no idea what this even means. Many users have both iOS and Android devices. Do they take better pictures when they use iOS? Are people who own iOS exclusively better photographers?
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Possibly. Professional photographs on Windows tend to produce more turgid, uninteresting output, or slap cheeseFX over everything, especially if they've ever claimed Macs are a 'waste of money' and rock an Android phone that was a 'great deal'. You know, all mouthy, nerdy Windows spods. Probably use Nikon too.

Mac photographers, by contrast, really push the envelope with lots of fashion-style blurry out of focus shots of skinny 20-somethings looking wasted. They tend to shoot 5DmkII, stills and video, but have a picture of themselves on their website holding a vintage Hasselblad.

So, yeah, Instagram is doomed.
 
I like this a lot because it means he's got some hipster in him. If everyone's doing it, it CANNOT AND WILL NOT be as fun.

:D
 
SuperBrown said:
I agree with Phil. Instagram is definitely trash now. It's all pics of food, shoes, make-up, One Direction, and teeny-boppers doing kissy faces.

Let's face it, it's Myspace.
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Yea because IOS users don't do that ***** as well do they? Oh course not, we are the superior race, highly intelligent with our oh so hard handling iPhone's :roll eyes:

Let's face it, if a spastic is going to take pictures of food, shoes and all the crap, more likely it would be from the more popular ( and thus more "sheepish" people) IOS devices, than it would from people using android mobiles.
 
I was at a restaurant last night and some idiot pulls out a digital camera and took a picture of her desert plate (Which was her choices from the buffet). I was like, WTF? Is that chick retarded? Trying to saver the moment? Now I see why. But it was a camera and not a phone. :eek:

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billystlyes said:
Apple jumped the shark when Steve died. It's just not the same without him.
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You fanboys need to get over your man crush and move on. Apple will continue without Steve and they will continue to innovate.
 
vincenz said:
I'm going to have to side against Schiller here. It just sounds like a case of one of those people who won't listen to one of their favorite bands anymore because it became popular.

"Pfff, I've known of them for years before you even knew they existed."
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You're not getting it. If we keep it to bands, the correct analogy would be that he stopped going to their concerts when they became too popular because he no longer felt at home in the audience.

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ncaissie said:
I was at a restaurant last night and some idiot pulls out a digital camera and took a picture of her desert plate (Which was her choices from the buffet). I was like, WTF? Is that chick retarded? Trying to saver the moment? Now I see why. But it was a camera and not a phone. :eek:
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Are you very young or are you not used to be out and about? People have been taking pictures of their food for at least a few decades now...
 
Boisv said:
First of all, this person is not using the term "jump the shark" correctly. Instagram has not been changed in any way by being made available on Android.

Second, this person comes off as an elitist prick who's sulking because his private community isn't so private anymore. Get over it.

If anything, Instagram can only be better if it's getting rid of pricks like him.
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It's because of pricks like him that I started getting interested in Instagram, because they take pictures that more or less everyone can enjoy. Most people (me included) basically just use it as a picture blog. I don't think I've got a single picture uploaded that would be interesting for someone who doesn't know me and my family.

So the likes of him got the likes of me into it, and the likes of me got him to leave. Full circle.

For some reason, Bourdieu comes to mind ;)
 
Boisv said:
First of all, this person is not using the term "jump the shark" correctly. Instagram has not been changed in any way by being made available on Android.

Second, this person comes off as an elitist prick who's sulking because his private community isn't so private anymore. Get over it.

If anything, Instagram can only be better if it's getting rid of pricks like him.
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And macrumors can be so better without android trolls, why are u here anyway mate?
 
"Now that it has [grown] much larger the signal to noise ratio is different.
That isn't necessarily good or bad, it's just not what I originally had fun with."

Sounds like my experience with Apple. I've witnessed a number of key functionalities go away that effect my productivity. Apple has great products, positioned well for growth, that now lack some of the warmth and fit and finish that defined them. Computers for the rest of us are now computers (devices) for the masses.
 
This story is probably the most pathetic example of the iPhone/Android fanboy war that I have ever come across.

So iPhone users all take artistic, worthwhile photos, and Android users all take crap photos? You're upset that the app is available to more people? Give me a break.

Elitist hipster fanboy nonsense.

Whoever compared this to someone not liking a band as soon as it gets popular, you were spot on. :)

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Umit said:
And macrumors can be so better without android trolls, why are u here anyway mate?
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Troll? Nice try. I love my iPhone.
 
Lol, this is stupid. He felt it was a smaller "community" that used Instagram? Let's be plain and clear here: There is no "community" of people that use an app other than the people you know personally that follow you/you follow. People using the "community" argument for things like this have ********* arguments.
 
MacNut said:
If anything Apple jumped the shark when they became a mobile focused company.
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Not quite, but if we go along with your quip, if Apple had not jumped the sharked it would have been eaten whole by it.

But if you use your noodle and look back on the revolution Apple started in mobile devices it clearly did not "jump the shark," in the way it's meant -- that it went so over the top it can only go down.

Your comment is really Luddite-esque. Technology moves forward and in a mobile society people need devices that fit how they work and live. People are not tied to the desk with their terminal anymore. There's no growth there. It's why M$'s influence has been gradually shrinking -- the execs there had no real mobile strategy. They, like you, even mocked the need for one, and the products Apple was announcing.
 
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