The Tragic Death of the Flip

[Oak Kitten]

For all those Rudies who own a Flip video camera - Cisco has decided to kill it. It was inexpensive and had great capability. What a bunch of boneheads.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/the-tragic-death-of-the-flip/

Oak

[razal]

This sort of reminds me of the documentary by Micheal Moore, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" I never know or understand totally what goes into the decision making process to kill a great idea or product. The excuse is usually, "the numbers just don't add up", but in the link (posted above by Oak), David Pogue seems to discredit that excuse.

A really neat feature of the newest version of Flip was also contained in the article:


But there’s a second part of the tragedy, too, something that nobody knows. That new Flip that the product manager showed me was astonishing. It was called FlipLive, and it added one powerful new feature to the standard Flip: live broadcasting to the Internet.

That is, when you’re in a Wi-Fi hot spot, the entire world can see what you’re filming. You can post a link to Twitter or Facebook, or send an e-mail link to friends. Anyone who clicks the link can see what you’re seeing, in real time — thousands of people at once.



Imagine the possibilities! I thought about getting one of these, too bad.

[richthelandlord]

A cynic might suggest that live streaming is the very reason it's dead - 'the man' wouldn't be comfortable of the way the police behave at demonstrations being streamed live, as one example... remember, you live in 'the land of the free' - where you're not.