“Apple’s upgrade of its mobile-phone operating system iOS 6 and the iCloud service will include a photo-sharing utility à la Instagram, which is being acquired by Facebook for $1 billion,” Aabha Rathee writes for Wall St. Cheat Sheet. “The app has more than 40 million users.”
“The new features will allow iCloud users to share photos with other users and to comment on them, sources told The Wall Street Journal,” Rathee writes. “About 125 million Apple device owners have signed up for the iCloud data-syncing service, the company announced last month. In February, the company had said the service had a 100 million users.”
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I don’t see the need! How many different ways to share photos do u need?
How many different mp3 players did we need before the iPod? How many different cell phones did we need before the iPhone?
Sharing photos is a feature, not a $1 billion company.
You don’t get it, there is much more to it than that. Not the same function, or even same group of friends. I interact with people from all over the world. There are instagramers into mobile photography, Photography in general, then there are the duckfacers and now the marketers are moving in.
Instagram started Mac only, with public support from Apple. Apple was not happy when they decided to make an Android version. Will be interesting to see what Apple comes up with. It makes sense. There is a whole tie in ecosystem with Instagram. InstaCanvas, CanvasPop, PrinstaGram, PostaGram, CasetaGram, InstaGoodies, and about a dozen more.
The new Ping
The new Instagram.
In a world with iMessage + Ping + iOS6 Photo share + Find Friends + Open Maps + FaceTime, who needs Facebook?
The answer is: whoever wishes… but doesn’t need it for communication and sharing.
Facebook has more than 900 million active users, nearly ten times iCloud.
You flunked math, didn’t you?
I just hope he isn’t an accountant.
He’s obviously a congressman.
Say what you will about Facebook, it is hardware agnostic. Doesn’t matter what computer or phone you use, you can connect. It’s easy to choose your group of friends and family to share with. Apple’s sharing is always limited to those within the Apple ecosystem, and rarely as simple as FB for sharing.
Yes, you can share your vacation plans with the local crackhead thief regardless what OS they happen to be using.
A Facebook user I know kept getting burgled every time she posted she was going somewhere. It took like three robberies before it finally dawned on her.
Yes, but who wants to associate with Andriod, or Windows users?
Facebook may have 900 million active accounts, but those numbers don’t reflect the number of actual unique users. In my experience, atleast half of the accounts on facebook are fake acounts, a majority for gamers.
I agree, some of the people I know have as many as 10 accounts. What for? I never asked and do not need or have a desire to know.
So as I read this it sounds as if they mean that iOS 6 will intergrate instagram photo sharing which means that Apple will have a direct connection to photo sharing with FB and not have to go from FB to upload your pics. Anyone else see this?