Versions of Snapseed for iOS, Mac OS X and Windows are already available, and Nik was reportedly working on an Android version prior to its being purchased by Google.
It launched iOS and Android versions of its app in mid-August. Pinterest offers users a visual pinboard on the Internet to share their photos. Snapseed, as it appears on an Android tablet Snapseed and Instagram are battling head to head - last year, Instagram won the iPhone App of the Year title while Snapseed took the title for iPad apps. The speculation for some time has been that Google+ is withering on the vine, and Google fought back on Monday, announcing that its social network now has more than 400 million members and 100 million monthly active users along with its disclosure of the Nik purchase.įacebook’s purchase of Instagram in April sparked questions about whether company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had begun losing focus, but perhaps shrewder heads might have foreseen Google reaching out for a photo editing app vendor to snap up. Facebook is clearly ahead, with iCrossing predicting earlier this year that the social networking giant would have 1 billion users in August. Google and Facebook have been battling each other in the social media space.
Nik Software did not respond to our request for further details. It’s “business as usual for now, but stay tuned for future updates and announcements,” Google spokesperson Katelin Todhunter-Gerberg told TechNewsWorld. “Neither company wants to work with the other now.” “Looking for Google to support anything Apple or Apple to support anything Google long term will lead to disappointment,” Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, said. Snapseed won the iPad App of the Year in Apple’s annual App Store Rewind for 2011. Google’s purchase has left some users of iOS devices wondering whether Nik will continue to support Snapseed on Apple’s operating system.
Nik is the maker of the Snapseed photo editing app.įacebook in April purchased Snapseed competitor Instagram for US$1 billion, and Monday’s announcement was seen as a continuation of the rivalry between the social networking giant and Google. On Monday, news that Google had purchased Nik Software triggered speculation that the Internet giant was following in Facebook’s footsteps.
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