Palm Pre
Photobucket, “the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site” is a native photo upload solution for Palm Pre. Does this mean Palm Pre users have to use Photobucket to share image and video files online? Well, Facebook is also embedded as your only other option.
What about all the other sites out there? After all, Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. If Photobucket and Facebook are the only pre-installed options, I’m not impressed. Are you?
Certainly, applications for other services will appear at some point, but forcing users to a pre-installed application that requires setting up a new account is hardly an impressive move by Sprint with Palm Pre. Native support for the top five or more sites should have been included.
Of course, first time photo sharing Pre owners will just become happy new Photobucket users and for them, this is a non-issue. Photobucket is a fine service, but those who already use another service, have a lot of files on that site and have shared the address for a long time will not want to, nor should they have to part with the social capital they have created using that service just because they bought the new hotness from Palm and Sprint.
“Photobucket is thrilled to be a natively integrated photo upload solution on Palm Pre,” said Alex Welch, president of Photobucket.
Thrilled is probably an understatement. Photobucket is poised to get a bunch of new users signing up because Palm and Sprint have given their customers very limited options. What do you think?
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