Success Instagram intended for photo enthusiasts inspired Google to release a similar application for iPhone users. This application is called Photovine, when compared with Instagram, this application has a number of advantages and disadvantages.
Created by a team of "Slide" which had been acquired by Google, Photovine offers features to be 'selling' of the application. On the one hand, opening up everyone's photos to everyone else helps gives Photovine a way around the network effect--most social apps struggle because they're only useful so long as enough users in a person's social circle sign up--and it means the app appears busy and populated even if few of a user's friends have signed up.
On the other hand, how interested are we in looking at strangers' pictures? There's an anthropological (or voyeuristic) appeal to seeing what photos people post in the Vine "At My Bedside" or "Things I See When Traveling," but people might tire of browsing through unknown users' images. After all, Facebook's genius was in showing people photos of other people they knew, a feature that quickly got its users hooked.
Though the app could be downloaded before, it was available only to a limited number of users and by invitation only. The current version is open to everyone--except the users of Google's Android mobile operating system, oddly enough, as Photovine is only available as an iPhone app on iTunes Store.
Created by a team of "Slide" which had been acquired by Google, Photovine offers features to be 'selling' of the application. On the one hand, opening up everyone's photos to everyone else helps gives Photovine a way around the network effect--most social apps struggle because they're only useful so long as enough users in a person's social circle sign up--and it means the app appears busy and populated even if few of a user's friends have signed up. On the other hand, how interested are we in looking at strangers' pictures? There's an anthropological (or voyeuristic) appeal to seeing what photos people post in the Vine "At My Bedside" or "Things I See When Traveling," but people might tire of browsing through unknown users' images. After all, Facebook's genius was in showing people photos of other people they knew, a feature that quickly got its users hooked.
Though the app could be downloaded before, it was available only to a limited number of users and by invitation only. The current version is open to everyone--except the users of Google's Android mobile operating system, oddly enough, as Photovine is only available as an iPhone app on iTunes Store.
