Posted by Jerry Miller on Jun 4, 2013 in News, Tech |
In review, Twitter should have given its new Vine app for Android more time to finish growing on the proverbial vine. Android users have been waiting until January to get their hands on the hottest iPhone app of 2013, which allows users to stitch together six seconds worth of self recorded video into a loop which functions like a modern day animated GIF. But the Vine app for Android, arriving today, means they’ll have to wait even longer for a version that works right and offers a usable level of functionality. This two-star clunker is enough to leave Twitter embarrassed.
If the point is to capture video of yourself and post it online, then the inability to use the front facing camera and incompatibility with Facebook make the Android version of the Vine app neutered. Sure, you can use it with Twitter’s own network, but most people are on Facebook instead. What’s bound to chafe Android users the most is that these features have been there on the iPhone version of Vine all along. Sure, every last one of the hundreds of Android phones has a front facing camera which works just a little differently from the next. But couldn’t Twitter have put just a little more resources on what it claims is one of its biggest priorities? And the partial feature set for Android is just the start; the app is unstable to boot.
Rating: two stars out of five. Vine 1.0 for Android is a shell of its iPhone counterpart, and Android users shouldn’t bother with it until the inevitable 1.1 update tries to right the ship.
Jerry Miller covers various topics for Stabley Times.
In review, Twitter should have given its new Vine app for Android more time to finish growing on the proverbial vine. Android users have been waiting until January to get their hands on the hottest iPhone app of 2013, which allows users to stitch together six seconds worth of self recorded video into a loop which functions like a modern day animated GIF. But the Vine app for Android, arriving today, means they’ll have to wait even longer for a version that works right and offers a usable level of functionality. This two-star clunker is enough to leave Twitter embarrassed.
If the point is to capture video of yourself and post it online, then the inability to use the front facing camera and incompatibility with Facebook make the Android version of the Vine app neutered. Sure, you can use it with Twitter’s own network, but most people are on Facebook instead. What’s bound to chafe Android users the most is that these features have been there on the iPhone version of Vine all along. Sure, every last one of the hundreds of Android phones has a front facing camera which works just a little differently from the next. But couldn’t Twitter have put just a little more resources on what it claims is one of its biggest priorities? And the partial feature set for Android is just the start; the app is unstable to boot.
Rating: two stars out of five. Vine 1.0 for Android is a shell of its iPhone counterpart, and Android users shouldn’t bother with it until the inevitable 1.1 update tries to right the ship.
Jerry Miller covers various topics for Stabley Times.