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I find it completely hilarious that Marissa is not dogfooding. I know that someone else said this earlier in the thread, but why is this on Instagram and not flickr? Come on, at least use your own damn product.

The correct answer to the objection of "but Instagram is better right now" is "I'm going to revitalize this product by using it for my own photos and commentary, even if it sucks right now."

You don't want the CEO of a company giving mindshare to a competitor!

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The counter-example is Steve Jobs: http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2209

(who used a Thinkpad for perhaps 12-18 months after returning to apple)

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After which he promptly brought new life to the Powerbook series.

So when will Flickr be releasing a working mobile app?

Well, makes sense given that at the time he thought nearly all the existing Apple products were shit.

I'm not sure how much competition they really are.

Instagram is much more focused on sharing. Flickr is focused on storage. I'd argue a better competitor to flickr would be facebook's photo app.

No Flickr is a community too, not focussed on storage. Well it was back when we used it.

Comment to picture ratio in the active community (defined as those who add photos to groups) seems far higher on Flickr than Instagram.

I don't really see Flickr and Instagram as competitors, and saying that Marissa should be using Flickr with blinders on to the other services out there is counterintuitive. Different mindshares for the users, they missed the opportunity really.

It's also better PR to use Instagram than Flickr.

Errr, dude, do you work for Microsoft? This is what got them into trouble in the first place, believing their own B.S. Sorry about the M$ slam, but damn, I keep hearing this over and over again, and it's so damn wrong (IMHO).

OMG, sorry I have a hard time telling when people are being sarcastic, haha good one!!!!

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