Here are the first photos of Flip ’s never - to - be launched FlipLive .
The FlipLive was suppose to be Flip ’s next - coevals camcorder , one that could stream video recording to the swarm . But Cisco kill the stigma the 24-hour interval before the Live was suppose to launch .
David Pogue , who revealed the beingness of the FlipLive , debate that Cisco should have keep Flip alive . That 1000000 of hoi polloi were buying them in droves and that they were corking camcorder . That they have great video quality — comparable to premature - gen camcorders . That they ’re cheap .
True . All unfeigned .
But launch the FlipLive would have been the start of a very uneasy strategy . It would have been more expensive . Closer to the price of a smartphone , or even exceed it in some eccentric . And even though you have to admit the want of monthly fee makes the FlipLive more affordable than a fancy French telephone , the problem is that the type of person who is streaming live video is also the type of person who buys a smartphone . And you ’d have to be a pretty video - disposed nut to want to impart another equipment around that does the same thing a smartphone can do .
Flip might have been okay today . And tomorrow . And made muckle of money for a few yr . But smartphones are sustain cheaper and better . And the long view on Flip and all flashing camcorders is that they ’re doomed to be bargain bin devices , standing in the dark of handsets that are only start to show their versatility and might . assign a wireless radio inside of one earn that abundantly clear-cut . The camcorder want the advantages of the smartphone . But it ca n’t have them because it ’s not just about the tuner . It ’s about the apps , and the onboard video editing and the filters and burden and the power to work with many services and MMS and all the eternal thing that apps can do . And the camcorder only has one way to match that . By becoming a smartphone .
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