Blast to the past: Digital deliberately erasing the advancesof 100 years!

On 16/04/2012 08:38, Mxsmanic wrote:
Has anyone noticed this? People are taking more and more digital photographs,
but more and more of them have all sorts of stupid filters applied that
effectively restore all the defects of the worst photos of 70 years ago.

The two guys who made that popular are now, after only two years of
business, billionaires...

In article , Laszlo Lebrun
wrote:

Has anyone noticed this? People are taking more and more digital
photographs,
but more and more of them have all sorts of stupid filters applied that
effectively restore all the defects of the worst photos of 70 years ago.

The two guys who made that popular are now, after only two years of
business, billionaires...

15 months and it sold for 1 billion. the company has 12 employees. one
founder will get $400mil when it vests. i don't know what the other one
will get or rest of the employees.

the question everyone is asking is *why*?

On 17/04/2012 02:23, nospam wrote:

the question everyone is asking is *why*?

A business model built on the stupidity of people has every chance to be
successful. The raw material is renewable ad libitum.

In article alpine.DEB.2.02.1204171305080.1890@ryan-BigStorm, Ryan
McGinnis wrote:

The two guys who made that popular are now, after only two years of
business, billionaires...

15 months and it sold for 1 billion. the company has 12 employees. one
founder will get $400mil when it vests. i don't know what the other one
will get or rest of the employees.

the question everyone is asking is *why*?

Because the iPhone and Android platforms combined make up a large part of
photography equipment these days, and the Instagram app is one of the
most-used apps on these devices.

true, but how is it worth 1 billion?? that's a lot of money.

also, instagram was iphone only until a couple of weeks ago. the
android version just came out.