Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO
by neosat on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:53PM
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"Their Spectacles release has the potential to build the largest real world image dataset on the planet"
With Google (and now Uber) cars driving around numerous places to capture data specifically for map imagery, satellite imagery and Android/iOS phones taking tons of photos + videos I highly doubt Snap will be the one to build the world's largest image dataset. The rest of your argument makes sense though.
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Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO
by AndrewKemendo on Thursday October 27, 2016 @12:35AM
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With only 100k users they would generate approximately 9BN images per month (30FPS min, 10sec Snaps, average 10 snaps per day).
With 1M users of spectacles (.6% of their current MAU), that's potentially 90BN images per month and over a trillion per year. In the same dataset. Machine vision wet dream.
Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO
by icelancer on Thursday October 27, 2016 @12:59AM
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There is no way the average user is shooting full 10s snaps 10x day. I use Snapchat regularly and that describes the top eschelon of users, which might be Spectacles users, but probably not all of them. I believe that is a vast overestimate.
Re:Snapchat Seeks to Raise as Much as $4B in IPO
by AndrewKemendo on Thursday October 27, 2016 @01:28AM
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As with most statistics it's likely normally distributed. I know teens send/receive in the hundreds per day - mind boggling really - and the celeb accounts post dozens daily. Even back in 2013 the numbers were staggering.
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-snaps-snapchat-users...