Jason Grimes

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Sure, you can find a 3rd party application to upload your photos to Flickr, but as a new iPhone user I have been frusterated that a company as forward thinking as Flickr have no plans for an iPhone application.  In fact here's a posting from a user group from a Flickr employee 7 months ago.  In the meantime, I'll continue using Twitterfon Pro.

jakerome  

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[I'm Flickr Staff]

Just a quick note to say that while we're fully aware that it would be nice to have an official iPhone app, it's not as simple as just knocking one together on a Friday afternoon.

For instance:

[1] The current 3rd party apps (such as Mobile Fotos, Shozu, Pixelpipe, etc) do a perfectly good job. It's hard to justify spending our limited time and money to produce a similar product just so it can have our name on it.

[2] We're only a small team of very busy web people, none of whom know how to code iPhone apps.

[3] Expertise in building websites doesn't necessarily translate into expertise in building desktop or cellphone applications (see the many threads complaining about our desktop uploader for instance).

[4] Hiring a 3rd-party iPhone developer for this project would be much more complicated than you'd think. (Much more complicated.)

[5] Flickr's very unusual for such a large site in that we push out changes about 10 times a day, every day. Publishing a new version of an iPhone app can take a week or more (and then you have to hope people install the update). Those two models aren't really compatible.

[6] We have an enormous list of other higher-priority tasks, that would provide greater returns for more of our members.

[7] The new m.flickr.com was built so we wouldn't need to make a Flickr app for every new cellphone that comes out.

[8] Many other reasons...

Having said all that, about 70% of Flickr staff use iPhones, so we're certainly not against the idea of a Flickr iPhone app (especially an uploader); it's just not likely to be the next bit of "value" that we add to the site.

Not yet, anyway...

Originally posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )
jakerome edited this topic 7 months ago.

 

Today I got a glimpse of a familiar band, The Moondoggies at Easy Street performing an instore session.  Having seen them a number of times I thought I knew what to expect, but after hearing that it was going to be covered on MTV's network series "$5 Cover" I wasn't so sure. It's weird seeing one of your favorite local bands rehearse as much as they did for each take.  I get it, it's really TV and you need so many shots to make it happen, but there is something cool and untouched by just watching a performance live without any reshoots.  My hope is that all the bands mentioned in the Seattle $5 Cover series perform well; from my friends in Thee Emergency, The Lights, The Moondoggies, Champagne Champagne to the rest of the Seattle cast.  Seattle's music scene has plenty of stars.

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