I was on vacation recently and used Pix all over---I got many great photos that were clearly better than what I would have gotten with the stock app (the built-in comparison feature is a great idea), even on landscapes where there weren't faces to focus on.

Pix also managed to take a fantastic Live Image of my sister and me, which is really special because I don't get to see her very often. Thanks to you all for that.

Chief area that I think needs improvement is on general speed optimizations, startup is slow and feedback when taking a shot could be clearer (i.e., when is it done after I hit the shutter?).

Could you comment on the size of the generated files? live images in particular?

On W10m live photos are just too large (10-15MB) to be sent to others.

The Live Image with my sister is an MP4 file, 852KB, 480x640 resolution, H.264 encoding.

I can see that its only available for apple devices, is there a technical hurdle in doing this for android?

If I had to guess, the diversity of Android hardware and operating system versions in the wild make delivering a quality experience more difficult compared to the narrower range of Apple devices and their generally higher specification of processors and cameras.

And if I were to wildly speculate, Apple phone owners are a more desirable demographic to pursue over the long run.

Counterpoint: Microsoft Hyperlapse for Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....

I'm surprised it's iOS exclusive, but only because it means it's not available for Windows Phone.

Please get your facts straight before your distort them :)

Windows phone (now w10 mobile) camera has supported these stuff for some years now (either natively or via extensions). Don't forget that "Live Photo" is Apples implementation of an old Nokia technology.

Windows Phone is no more. The current OS on Microsoft phones is Windows 10 Mobile. It includes Lumia Tools for editing and the Camera app appears to have similar image processing for faces and scenes based on my experience [yes, I own a Microsoft phone].

The linked landing page is nearly 40MB. What's the deal?

http://i.imgur.com/70wES9O.png

On a 56K modem that would take 1.5 hours to download...

How long would it take over 1200 baud modem? Who cares?

It's a page about a camera app it probably needs to have images. And it creates animations so it's useful to include samples of that, right? I like to moan about website sizes as well but here it's sort of justified.

>It's a page about a camera app it probably needs to have images.

See http://www.bing.com as a counter example. They load in a beautiful animated background, far larger and higher resolution than any image on the Pix site. Total page size? 364KB. Yes, it's over 100 times smaller.

You can still have images and animations without it using absurd amounts of data. This is just sloppy optimization, especially for a mobile app where data usage is most important.

How many are still using a 56K modem? serious question.

Probably not many, but it's a useful metric for showing just how far page bloat has gone in the last 10 years.

The average internet speed in India is 2.5mb/s, which is still 128 seconds. Just to download a webpage that's pretty extreme.

if you work in a remote site and use vsat you could have a similar connection speed

First of all I want to just say that I think it's great to see MS isn't giving up and keeping to try and reinvent yourself. Sooner or later you are going to get something really big right.

Second of all. I think there is something wrong with the top animation, it's very janky.

Looks cool! How big is your team, and are you in Redmond or Mountain View? What language(s) did you use? How long have you been working on this project? Is the Hyperlapse feature done server-side or on device?

Two confirmation dialogs (one from the app and one from iOS) for deleting an image seems kind of overkill. Can you make it just one?

Good thought and we have heard feedback on this issue from others as well. We are working on a solution that simplifies the path to delete while still aligning to requirements for our app and iOS.

Does Pix phone home?

With user permission (1). It asks on first load.

1: https://imgur.com/a/MzpgV

Why did the woman switch from salad to the burger?

Or, create apps for the platform used by 7x as many people before bothering creating them for the worst of them all.

Having developed for all major three mobile platforms, I would order them as Windows Phone, iOS, Android in what concerns developer tooling, with Windows Phone having the best experience.

Sadly Microsoft management has shot themselves on both foots multiple times.

For development, perhaps. I am speaking about actual usage.

I wouldn't say Windows Phone is the worst. It performs well on low spec hardware, it gets updates, and the Nokia lineup provides better value than equivalently priced Android phones.

Disclaimer: Posting from my Lumia 640