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Facebook Launches New iPhone App Dedicated to Posting and Sharing Photos
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I've tried using the Facebook app on Android, but its complete garbage. Suprisingly using my stock internet browser gives me more or less the same UI but with much less lag.
Does the Facebook app also suck tremendously on iOS?
Does the Facebook app also suck tremendously on iOS?
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As a photographer who mainly only uses Facebook to view pictures, and post pictures...this app is excellent. Just downloaded it and liked it immediately. Very smooth operating. I have no idea why everyone instantly assumes anything Facebook related must be bad. The number of ignorant comments in this thread is baffling. Don't like that there is a 4th Facebook app? Great! Don't download it!
Better yet: another FB privacy invader? No, thanks. Their ridiculous FB app on iPad is bad enough...not to mention the disastrous IPO that served only to put more money in Mark Sugarloaf's pockets.
How is it iOS's fault?Yeah, let's be thankful it is more cumbersome to get a photo to Facebook thanks to ios.
Let's all be thankful for that.
Damn right. If it comes anywhere near the platform I'll have to reconsider staying with it. FB is not an option. And with Apple these days, its integration wouldn't be either
.People still don't get it.
Facebook didn't spend $1 billion on Instagram for its technology. It spent $1 billion on Instagram for its large (and growing) user base and to box out future competition.
Facebook in tough times. First the botched IPO, the less than stellar perception of the Instagram buy, the Facebook co-founder ditching his American citizenship to save on taxes, and now what looks like a general dissatisfaction with the apps.
Facebook also faces critique for it's terms of service as being rights grabbing in regards to uploaded content.
Looks like they have to better their ways so they won't get blown up into MySpace land.
New social networks catch fast as you can see on the rise of Pinterest.
As images are paramount now for social networking, Facebook has its work cut out for itself.
Facebook also faces critique for it's terms of service as being rights grabbing in regards to uploaded content.
Looks like they have to better their ways so they won't get blown up into MySpace land.
New social networks catch fast as you can see on the rise of Pinterest.
As images are paramount now for social networking, Facebook has its work cut out for itself.
Are you serious? Instagram performs way more efficiently and better looking as well. This app is basic, boring, slow, and just another separate app that could have been nicely implemented into Facebook. How about fixing a terrible app, adding timeline, adding page manager, and adding camera? At this rate, Facebook is poised to fall in on itself and someone will take its place
Just because everyone you know is on Facebook, doesn't mean we all need more Facebook on iOS.
Twitter is a better addition to iOS due to it's ability to quickly and easily share short messages with everyone.
Also Apple hates Facebook after the whole Ping issue (they just remove Ping tbh)
that being said, this is a great app, but wouldn't have made it easier to just change the layout/functionality of the instagram app instead of make a brand new one?
Agreed. Wonder what would happen if everyone deactivated their Facebook accounts and went to Google+ instead?
Mind you, out of the 900M how many are 12-18 year old users who don't have any purchasing power? How many are 19-22, college students, who are broke as it is? How many are people in 3rd world countries who don't have money yet a "like" for a Ferrari somehow equals sales?
First it was MySpace, now it's Facebook. The real question is, will Facebook still be around in 5 years?
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Facebook is acting very Jobsian with they're new product roll out
I don't know why everyone is wishing that facebook had one great app...
You guys should open your eyes and see what they're doing. They're trying to infiltrate iOS in every way possible, and I think it's brilliant.
Their standard facebook app sucks, but Faceboook Messenger is great simply because of how lightweight and fast it is. When I was using my iPhone abroad (where texting is ridiculously expensive), Facebook Messenger replaced the standard Messeges app for me (this was pre-iMessage days) and I loved it.
This camera app is also incredible. Those of you who have used it I'm sure will agree that it's fast and easy to use, and lays out your photo feed in a very simple, easy to use way (thank you Instagram developers). This app is designed to replace your standard camera app. Every picture you take doesn't automatically upload to facebook until you decide it should, but they DO all go to the camera roll. This is the standard Camera app + Social connectivity and I think it's brilliant.
Facebook is rolling out multiple apps to keep them lightweight and focused, and this is in fact very Apple of them.
Steve Jobs always said "Stick to doing a few things, and do them really well" and that is the philosophy behind these multiple facebook apps. The camera app does photos and sharing REALLY well. The messages app does messaging REALLY well. The all in one facebook app will never be as good as these standalone apps because of the sheer fact that facebook does way too much for a single app to handle.
Lastly, if everyone is complaining about having to have a "facebook" folder, why not try to put the camera app in your photography folder, and your facebook messenger app in your messaging/communication/IM folder? Why do they all need to be grouped together? Point is they don't, and facebook is smart for realizing this.
I don't know why everyone is wishing that facebook had one great app...
You guys should open your eyes and see what they're doing. They're trying to infiltrate iOS in every way possible, and I think it's brilliant.
Their standard facebook app sucks, but Faceboook Messenger is great simply because of how lightweight and fast it is. When I was using my iPhone abroad (where texting is ridiculously expensive), Facebook Messenger replaced the standard Messeges app for me (this was pre-iMessage days) and I loved it.
This camera app is also incredible. Those of you who have used it I'm sure will agree that it's fast and easy to use, and lays out your photo feed in a very simple, easy to use way (thank you Instagram developers). This app is designed to replace your standard camera app. Every picture you take doesn't automatically upload to facebook until you decide it should, but they DO all go to the camera roll. This is the standard Camera app + Social connectivity and I think it's brilliant.
Facebook is rolling out multiple apps to keep them lightweight and focused, and this is in fact very Apple of them.
Steve Jobs always said "Stick to doing a few things, and do them really well" and that is the philosophy behind these multiple facebook apps. The camera app does photos and sharing REALLY well. The messages app does messaging REALLY well. The all in one facebook app will never be as good as these standalone apps because of the sheer fact that facebook does way too much for a single app to handle.
Lastly, if everyone is complaining about having to have a "facebook" folder, why not try to put the camera app in your photography folder, and your facebook messenger app in your messaging/communication/IM folder? Why do they all need to be grouped together? Point is they don't, and facebook is smart for realizing this.
Are you serious? Instagram performs way more efficiently and better looking as well. This app is basic, boring, slow, and just another separate app that could have been nicely implemented into Facebook. How about fixing a terrible app, adding timeline, adding page manager, and adding camera? At this rate, Facebook is poised to fall in on itself and someone will take its place
They are different apps. Have you used either one? I use Facebook with friends. The new app makes it EASY to view photos, and post photos for my friends.
Instagram is a giant social network where many people have a list of followers who are total strangers and just want to look at photos other people are posting. You and many others here need to get a clue instead of making assumptions about what this new app is supposed to be doing.
No, it's not a better addition (for me, at least) because like I said, no one I know is on Twitter.
If I was Kim Kardashian then I would totally agree with you.
Reach9 said:
The social network industry is pretty new so who knows how it'll evolve. But for both of the market leaders that have failed, the reasons are pretty obvious
1. Friendster failed for tech reasons - they grew faster than their servers could support. Half the time you'd try to log in and your page wouldn't load. Eventually everyone got fed up and moved to Myspace
2. Myspace failed because they didn't control the user experience. People would log in and find a ton of spam. They'd go to other peoples pages, which were flooded with javascript, and their web browser would crash. Eventually everyone got fed up and moved to Facebook
Facebook doesn't have these issues. On top of that, it looks like it's paying attention to what their competitors are doing and making sure they offer the same thing. When Foursquare's geolocation got popular, Facebook ripped it off with Facebook Places. The timeline concept and cover picture are ripped off directly from Path. When Google+ came out and advertised itself as having better privacy controls, Facebook tweaked its own privacy controls, made groups easier to use, ripped off Circles, etc. Instagram has a social network based entirely off pictures, Facebook realizes in 2012 pictures are a primary function of social networks so they buy it and integrate it.
Pinterest is probably the next big competitor so I'm guessing FB will probably rip off and integrate how people are linked through activities. If they're smart, FB will integrate blogging somewhere down the line, seeing how microblogs and traditional blogs like Xanga also function as social networks.
Facebook looks like they're trying to become the behemoth of social networks, adding every feature its competitors innovate. Most of its competitors are essentially barebones social networks distinguished by 1 or 2 original ideas. So Facebook rips off those ideas and removes the threat. Since nobody is suing anybody for ripping off features in this industry, their strategy seems to be working.
"Facebook Camera wouldn't really be much of an Instagram competitor anyway, lacking any mobile-only social circles and hashtagged sharing around specific topics. "Enhancing the Facebook photos experience on mobile is long overdue," Facebook's Derick Mains told me. "We really had to step up our game, and we're committed to building Instagram independently."
So there is a lie and a mystery.
The lie is that of COURSE they could add those features in an in-house app, and the mystery is... why a billion for an app worth about nothing?
Sneaky bastards, I smell something stinky.
So there is a lie and a mystery.
The lie is that of COURSE they could add those features in an in-house app, and the mystery is... why a billion for an app worth about nothing?
Sneaky bastards, I smell something stinky.
Except for that whole stock IPO thing
Linda Richmond: I'll give ya a twapic. Social networks are neither social nor networks. Discuss.
I find it ironic that social networks are creating a generation of anti-social human beings that know how to communicate online but lack the social skills necessary for face-to-face contact. You know, what society used to do.