Comments on: Flickr Says Apple’s Next Victim Is the Point-&-Shoot http://gigaom.com/2011/04/18/flickr-data-suggests-apples-next-victim-is-the-point-and-shoot/ Thu, 23 May 2013 13:58:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: CDC http://gigaom.com/2011/04/18/flickr-data-suggests-apples-next-victim-is-the-point-and-shoot/#comment-617741 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:00:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=331744#comment-617741 However, if you are traveling and can’t take a SLR camera or large digital camera, the IPhone fills in nicely as a great camera.

I know MANY people going to Europe who now will leave their digital cameras home. Instead they will buy a sim card for the IPhone 4 and use the IPhone 4 camera/video as their only camera. It is that good. Plus it does the new HDR, which is great for the professional tinkering photographers.

]]> By: CDC http://gigaom.com/2011/04/18/flickr-data-suggests-apples-next-victim-is-the-point-and-shoot/#comment-617738 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:47:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=331744#comment-617738 You know what they say about people with megapixel envy?

]]> By: Bazz http://gigaom.com/2011/04/18/flickr-data-suggests-apples-next-victim-is-the-point-and-shoot/#comment-617529 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:27:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=331744#comment-617529 I concur — phones are always in your pocket while you must think to take a camera with you.
And size (CCD) does it matter? Nobody ever sees images ofter first week — except babies lovers.

]]> By: ersouza http://gigaom.com/2011/04/18/flickr-data-suggests-apples-next-victim-is-the-point-and-shoot/#comment-617491 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:07:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=331744#comment-617491 You know, I don’t have trouble believing that cameras on smartphones will be the death of point and shoots, for the most part. But the reporting on these flickr charts by just about every tech outlet has been downright terrible. Everyone seems to be aping the same superfluous interpretation of an unlabelled set of charts from a single photo-sharing site without even digging a little deeper into the actual numbers that can be found there.

If you look at the actual numbers, you’d notice that while the iPhone 4 actually seems to be owned by many Flickr users, they don’t upload as many photos with it as many other cameras on Flickr, including the iPhone 3G. iPhone 4 actually seems to be trending behind the iPhone 3G in terms of total # of items uploaded to Flickr.

The story isn’t as simple as the knee jerk responses to Flickr’s trending charts would lead you to believe.

]]> By: Cold Water http://gigaom.com/2011/04/18/flickr-data-suggests-apples-next-victim-is-the-point-and-shoot/#comment-617489 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:59:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=331744#comment-617489 As much as I’d like to see point-and-shoots die, there’s good reason to believe they’ll stick around for some occasions. Besides the lack of zoom, it’s a lousy form factor (stills or video), and murder on the battery, even if you’re not a broadly stereotypical Japanese tourist.

Then there’s the storage dilemma: you either have to pack lightly on music/videos to leave space for photos. While cameras don’t skip a beat when you swap memory cards, the same feature on a phone isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be, because the SD isn’t just bulk file storage.

]]> By: Dilip Andrade http://gigaom.com/2011/04/18/flickr-data-suggests-apples-next-victim-is-the-point-and-shoot/#comment-617480 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:07:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=331744#comment-617480 In fairness, this really shows that the people using iPhones are more likely to share their content through online repositories such as Flickr than people with non-connected cameras.

This was inevitable, as it is far easier to take a photo and have it essentially auto-uploaded to a photo sharing site. It is likely that a person taking 20 photos with an iPhone will post almost all of them, while a person taking 20 photos on a P&S is likely to only post the “good shots” because of the extra effort.

There appears to be a conflation of people who share images and people who take images.

To find out if P&S cameras are a dying breed it would be more useful to check the sales of these devices.

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/2011/04/18/flickr-data-suggests-apples-next-victim-is-the-point-and-shoot/#comment-617477 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:00:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=331744#comment-617477 Sure we have, we even reviewed the N8 and it’s stellar camera last year: http://gigaom.com/2010/10/15/review-nokia-n8-is-two-steps-forward-one-step-back/

But it’s not us you should be upset with: it’s all the Flickr users not using the N8. ;)

]]> By: Natey T. http://gigaom.com/2011/04/18/flickr-data-suggests-apples-next-victim-is-the-point-and-shoot/#comment-617474 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:44:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=331744#comment-617474 @Rr Yeah, but no one cares about the Nokia N8. They certainly aren’t about to become the most popular camera used on Flickr. The iPhone is.

]]> By: KsbjA http://gigaom.com/2011/04/18/flickr-data-suggests-apples-next-victim-is-the-point-and-shoot/#comment-617472 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:41:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=331744#comment-617472 As pointed out in the article, megapixels and all that don’t neccessarily guarrantee the best shots. Also, the iPhone is more popular because it uses a reasonable operating system, which isn’t how I’d describe Symbian. :-/

]]> By: Justin http://gigaom.com/2011/04/18/flickr-data-suggests-apples-next-victim-is-the-point-and-shoot/#comment-617465 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:54:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=331744#comment-617465 Rr, that’s the dumbest argument I’ve ever heard to a story completely unrelated to the article.

For the record I owned the N8 and found picture quality to be good but the main issue – and one that apple solved simply – was that sharing a photo is just so damn easy.

I own a DSLR in addition to a Sony point and shoot and with the iPhone 4 I too find my need for using my other cameras are slowly diminishing.

iPhone 5 will probably end it for me as the best camera in the world is the one you have with you right now.

I’d love to hear a proper argument from you about why this isn’t the case but I assume it’s because you can’t back up lame statements. The truth is in the stats and there no more an authoritative voice than Flickr user data.

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