There’s shit on your lens.
MG Siegler and Dan Frommer are among those discussing what Instagram for Android means.
Siegler:
This exposes something that is otherwise hard to expose: it’s either a lack of attention to detail amongst Android OEMs or a lack of caring. “Good enough” will never be the best.
While Siegler posted an earlier piece which wasn’t as clear about his views on the subject, he certainly clarified them later, in part by linking to a tweet from John Gruber with a comparison shot between a Galaxy Nexus and an iPhone 4S. There is, clearly, a quality difference.
Escaping the issue of how the photo was taken, it does highlight an issue: Android phones have shitty cameras, and OEMs need to fix this.
But Sielger also touches on the idea that Android photos will “pollute” the Instagram feed.
While I don’t believe that Siegler feels that his is because of the users themselves, it brings me to Frommer:
Until now, of course, it has been a glorious iOS-only social network of interesting photos, taken by interesting people. Because, of course, interesting people only use iPhones. And the people who use Android phones aren’t the type of people who would contribute beautiful or interesting photos to the world. Or something.
Continuing:
Again: The only photos you see in your stream are those you ask for. So if someone is posting stupid or ugly stuff, unfollow them! It’s pretty simple. There should be no social pressure to follow someone on Instagram if you don’t want to. If you haven’t learned from your Facebook mistakes by now, that’s your problem.
Agreed, and well put. There is this idea in the tech community that people who use less popular products are, in some way, lesser. Outside from being offensive, this escapes the point of technology: to bring people together and solve problems. To share. To express. Pitty fights over camera quality only slows progress forward. There’s a difference between competition and infighting.
![Mic Wright:
Lee found himself under significant pressure. He says:
“[Samsung] used the legal system to block me from reporting anything against them or anything that made them uncomfortable. It was a waste of time. I was branded a troublemaker because people think legal cases harmed my company’s reputation.”
Yet Samsung seems capable enough of making trouble for itself. In 2008, the current Samsung chairman, Lee Kun-Hee, stepped down after his house and offices were raided and a police investigation began into claims that the corporation was maintaining a slush fund to bribe court officials and politicians.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8exajfFYQ1qi3geyo1_500.png)
