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9 responses to “What’s popular vs. What’s used”

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   tom brander

   December 3, 2011 at 11:02 am

   Well,, Androids are more integrated with Picassa/Google as a general rule…

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   Doc Searls

   December 3, 2011 at 11:21 am

   Good point, Tom. Does Picassa expose their stats in a similar way?

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   jeff clark

   December 3, 2011 at 11:30 am

   Having both a Droid X and an iPhone 3Gs, I have to agree with Tom. When I was using my iPhone as a camera, I did post a lot of pictures to Flckr, but as I used my Droid more and more (its my go to phone now), those pictures are up on Google+ (instant upload is the main reason).

   Another reason for more iPhone photos on Flckr is the camera is generally better on the iPhones, and therefore more reason to share.

   Probably the best source for a true “picture” of camera phone usage would be on Facebook as its independent from Google and Apple and after all, its the largest photo sharing site around.

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   inteligator

   December 3, 2011 at 11:59 am

   To my knowledge, Picassa doesn’t. But I also thought that Flickr discriminated against non-iOS phones so I could be terribly wrong.

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   Rod K

   December 3, 2011 at 12:47 pm

   I wondered about that graph too. This might be more accurate, or not:

   All cameras sorted by popularity. It would seem the Android variations seem to be popular.

   http://www.flickr.com/cameras/brands/?sort=popular

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   Jonathan Peterson

   December 6, 2011 at 3:41 pm

   Android has more of the market than Apple, but Apple’s total share is divided between 4 current iOS camera phone models, while there are more than 100 current Android camera phones in use.

   I ignored all phones older than 2010 in this list – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_devices

   If Flickr listed by platform, I’m willing to bet generic android would be very close to generic iOS.

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   Cathy

   December 7, 2011 at 7:38 pm

   I think short term variations will be overcome by the dominance of Apple’s hardware/software environment vs. the long term superiority of how the company interlinks form and function. It also makes sense that Apple’s customers appreciate form and function, so they will be more inclined to use apps that play to this audience, such as those that support the photo space. Taken together, Apples potential chokehold on mobile/mutli device, and the nature of their users, point toward a needed bias toward Apple. Never count Google out, but their revenue model will have to change as this trend continues, and the PC dominated search declines in favor of Apples dominance in mobile.

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   rolf

   December 15, 2011 at 3:39 pm

   in addition to the comment above about ease of publishing to picasa from android phones:
   it may also played a role that at the release of the first version of the iphone flickr was much more popular then now. also, as a android tablet user i know that for flickr not really good apps are available. for iOS, lots of great apps for easy publishing are available. on android, i stick to the e-mail publishing function.

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   Rachel Shapiro

   December 17, 2011 at 2:38 am

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