Lol thanks for the definition.
I agree with most of that, however, I will say that being on the same networks makes it easier to share stuff to your better half.
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Lol thanks for the definition.
I agree with most of that, however, I will say that being on the same networks makes it easier to share stuff to your better half.
YouTube competition = Good
Google competitor is Facebook= Bad
Google competitor is Facebook= Bad
Social media's boom in the late 2000s guaranteed that current youth and future generations will have the social skills of a baked potato.
Vertical videos. Gosh pushing this horrible trend. Next big TV trend at the CES, new vertical video mode with a stand rotates the damn TV 90 degrees for playback of vertical videos, so that you can enjoy all this wonderfully shot videos using every pixel of your TV
Do we need another app? In my IG account I have an IGTV icon on the top and functionality seems the same.
I'm not sure if you're suggesting that videos should only be allowed to be recorded in portrait or in landscape orientation.
One of these answers is correct, the other is morally reprehensible.
Phones should have been unable to record vertical videos from the get go. I remember wondering for ages why instead of shooting an abomination that is a vertical video, it would shoot a standard horizontal video with just a smaller view finder on the vertical screen. But makers never did that and now we are stuck with vertical videos.
portrait that’s the whole point of the app, but what I meant now there’s not enough content so most of the videos there are recored in landscape and zoomed in
I guess I needed an "/s" after my first paragraph. I do see a distortion of a made up example on my part. I appologize for that. I should have thought more throughly for a bona fide non-Apple service that later became accessible.
You missed my point that [Blank] OS vs [Blank] OS exclusivity is petty. Also glossed over is that more companies bend over backwards to cater to Apple users; that there is a reciprocal deficit in what Apple gives back.
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So you're saying you fall into the morally reprehensible category. Got it.
Nothing I, nor the majority of the people I follow, shoot in portrait. And nine times out of ten any video is also, properly, in landscape (and not cropped).
Instagram and Facebook are quickly becoming the same thing. It would be completely logical to roll them into the same app. But it won't happen, because they need Instagram to hold on to young people. Facebook as a brand is poison if you're under 25. The "old person app."
I think there's a gap in the market right now for a well-built social network based on simplicity and user control.
Portrait definitely has its place and can be great, but it 100% needs to be shot and produced specifically for portrait, no cropping.
I think there's a gap in the market right now for a well-built social network based on simplicity and user control.
Portrait definitely has its place and can be great, but it 100% needs to be shot and produced specifically for portrait, no cropping.
Hahahah!
Totally agree
I'd like to upload videos to play them landacape, who the hell, besides kardashians and models, wants to upload a vertical video longer than 1min?!? What are you going to do in front of the camera?
I agree, a couple of people I follow uploaded nice videos for portrait mode and it looked great.
Since we are spending more and more time on our phones I think having a video service for mobiles can be a good idea. But cropped videos which some people uploaded look horrible.
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Count me in on the vertical video haters in the world. It's beyond my ability to comprehend why people feel it's okay to do this. When Instagram er Facebook stated they were allowing video and it would be vertical video only "because that's how most people record video on their phones" I almost S* a brick. That's all we need - more crap video out there.
I refuse to watch vertical video - anything shot that way gets bypassed and or deleted when possible. Not sure about any others here, but I've put in an iOS feature request to have a message display on the iDevice when someone tries to start shooting vertical video. Received a message back that request had already been entered by someone else. Hopefully, they will put that in there in the near future.....doubt it though.
Count me in on the vertical video haters in the world. It's beyond my ability to comprehend why people feel it's okay to do this. When Instagram er Facebook stated they were allowing video and it would be vertical video only "because that's how most people record video on their phones" I almost S* a brick. That's all we need - more crap video out there.
I refuse to watch vertical video - anything shot that way gets bypassed and or deleted when possible. Not sure about any others here, but I've put in an iOS feature request to have a message display on the iDevice when someone tries to start shooting vertical video. Received a message back that request had already been entered by someone else. Hopefully, they will put that in there in the near future.....doubt it though.
I couldn’t care less whether it’s horizontal or vertical... I just hope they don’t add non-skippable 15-second (sometimes longer) ads to a pointless 20-second video (usually filmed with a potato) like on Facebook. Good luck watching an hour long video of your Instagram friend staring at a wall with non-skippable ads.
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