Haven't you been to a party where everybody took pics and you couldn't wait till they uploaded the pics on FB or something to see what they shot?
yes, but I'm at the party for the party - I have no intention of spending the entire party staring into my smartphone and living vicariously through the pictures of the lives of people ten feet away from me.
Or if I know someone is closer to the action. Or someone took a picture of me and my wife, or a bunch of people took a bunch of pictures in a group shot. At the game someone might have better seats, at school teenagers could go to town with this.
I think they had a great idea that helped them get $141 million from some of the biggest names in the VC world, but bungled execution badly.
Have you seen how much people spend, and how much trouble they go to for wedding photos?
If the app is on, and tracking photos that were taken, then can resolve it after the fact (and get those photos), I think a lot of people would be interested.
It seems convoluted (not to mention a gigantic drag on your battery life) to do so on each and every device in real-time.
Your phone knows where you were, when. And says, "Here is where I was, what pictures were taken around me?" I want this information regardless of whether I was personally taking pictures.
Keeping a history of where you are can be done without much drain on your battery life. It can just log a location every few minutes.
80% of the time (walking down the street, sitting in my office, etc.), I don't care about pictures that were taken around me. For the 1% of the time that I DO care, I can probably easily name the thing that I want to see pictures of. Location is perhaps a handy filter for "tags that might be important to me", but it's hardly the sole determiner, or even a major factor, in whether any given picture will be one that's interesting to me.
I have a phone camera and a fairly nice, if not exactly pro, DSLR. I'd never consider taking anything remotely important on the phone; the quality difference is enormous.
(I'm 31 so an old geezer and I don't know wtf these crazy kids nowadays all do exactly, it's just that when I walk back from my office to home through the bar area in my city, I see many people frolicking about with their phones, taking pictures and doing things with it that suggest it's more than just sms'ing. Also I sometimes see small groups of people standing together, each of them doing things on their phones. It's surreal to me, but if that's how they use their phones...)
If you are not paying for the product you are the product.
During the party? No. Never. And I go to a fair share of events and weddings.
Normally at parties, we eat, talk, have fun, take pictures for later, take videos, dance, dance some more, drink, drink some more, run after the kids, eat, dance, and talk.
I'm not staring at my phone hoping that someone sitting at the other table across from me or across the room is going to share a picture of an even I just saw from another angle.
Now, let's say we are at an event where I'm not with people I know. Rather, I'm with a few friends or family, and we are doing things. Again, we'll be doing things. Taking pictures, videos, and doing things. Having fun. I'm probably not staring at my phone hoping someone uploads something at the even I'm currently attending. To show me something I could have seen if I wasn't staring at my phone.
I could meet this person. They obviously have the same interest as me: the event, where many other people are. The only other similar interest we share is that we both are using the same mobile app. Oh, and we also prefer looking at our phone rather than hang with our friends.
Or we are there alone trying to make friends. So yeah, I think I found the arget market that would get the most use out of it.
People without friends interested in going to events, not actually participating in them, but taking pictures in between staring at their mobile phone waiting for someone else to take a picture as well. And maybe meeting up. And talking about the app.
Maybe I"m just getting old.
Now, whether or not Color is the best place for that to happen, I don't know.
That said, I think you're right... for some people it does have value. Whether or not it has enough value, and an accompanying business model, to build a successful business, is TBD.
And come on, your pictures don't come out THAT bad: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071126170543/uncyclo...