Well it took many months, but it looks like Vine finally came to Android. After downloading it and playing with it, I’m sorry to say I’m not too impressed. First and foremost, check out my crappy first attempt at making a Vine, showing off our nursery we’ve been working on. I’d love to have embedded the Vine into my post, but alas they don’t offer that functionality. Update: Stupid me didn’t see the “Embed” link at the bottom:
Speaking of limited functionality, some of my first thoughts of this app include:
- Seriously, the videos just auto-play when the app loads?!?
- There’s no way to mute the volume??? (at this point I regretted starting the app while in the office)
- How does this Twitter app not use Twitter O-Auth?
- Why is this audio out of sync when I record?
What I don’t get is how a nearly 10 billion dollar company like Twitter can take so long to release an Android app, and when it does, it feels so lack-lustered? I can definitely appreciate the intricacies of app development, and I realize that you can’t simply throw more bodies to make an app better, but this seems incredibly half-baked. It’s a little ironic that Twitter, a company that is sacrificing (3rd party) app functionality in favor or their web interface, produces an app like Vine that has such a bare-bones web presence.
I understand that apps are a journey, but in terms of first impressions on the biggest mobile platform: this seems to have fallen pretty flat…