Earlier TechCrunch post where Arrington wonders why the Flip has been so successful when it's not as good as the video feature that most people have on their digital stills cameras.
The answer is in the comments - like this one: "Here’s why I like my flip: Number of videos of my kids shared with the grandparents before the flip = 0 Number of videos shared after the flip = zillions Sure, I can probably do all the same stuff with something else, but I didn’t. That’s why it’s great." Non-techy people love 1) the fact that there's no cable and 2) that the Flip software lets you can transfer, edit and upload to youtube really easily. They're prepared to sacrifice quality and features for simplicity and ease of use. Having better quality pictures isn't worth it if you're less able to share because the technological process daunts you. Also, it's a purpose-built video camera - therefore people instinctively trust it more than the extra video feature on what is supposed to be a stills camera. They assume that the video shot on their stills camera won't be much good, and that it'll be hard to do anything with it. And maybe they're right. My mother in law brought back some very short video clips that she'd shot on her Canon stills camera in Burma/ Myanmar. They were in AVI format that were too big to email and she'd taken some of them portrait instead of landscape. So she didn't know what to do with them. I had to get her to upload them to Blip, download them, transcode them to mp4, rotate them in Quicktime Pro, then reupload them. If she didn't know me, they would have sat unopened forever on her hard drive, considered useless. Now they're up on Blip - little moving snapshots from inside Burma - http:// jossy.blip.tv Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Mar-09, at 8:07 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Intersting post about how the Flip camera has evolved into a pretty great, inexpensive camera: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/19/flip-video-wrong-wrong-wrong-and- then-so-so-right/ The San Francisco-based company is well known today for creating extremely > small, well designed and inexpensive video cameras that take > exceptional > video. And the software that comes with the devices provides easy > to use > tools to edit that video and upload it to the web. But Pure Digital > wasnt > always selling hit products - it took seven years for the company > to get it > right. In the meantime, they launched products that just werent > quite the > right thing at the right time. > Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
