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A word about color

Commenters on the tech blogs are eager to jump on the bandwagon and bash Color's $41 mil investment as a clear sign of a bubble. At first I thought so too. Granted, the app has a two star rating, is not immediately intuitive, and is otherwise only marginally useful. Yet, I disagree with all of you who are saying that this will be a massive flop. The way I see this, is that Color's app is just a red herring which diverts attention from the underlying technology. However, the underlying technology that they've developed is pretty impressive, and has a lot more potential uses than yet another social photo sharing location aware phone app.
( 3 comments | on HN )
Re:A word about color by kqueue on Sunday March 27, 2011 @09:47PM (#2376742)
Your claims are based on what?
Re:A word about color by grishick on Sunday March 27, 2011 @10:04PM (#2376798)
On having used the app and having talked to people who worked with Bill Nguyen.
Re:A word about color by kqueue on Sunday March 27, 2011 @10:57PM (#2376944)
That was worth mentioning then.