Apple has acquired SnappyLabs, the one-man app developer behind SnappyCam, a high-speed continuous shooting photography app for iOS. SnappyCam’s developer, John Papandriopoulos, developed SnappyCam, an app that enabled recent-model iPhones to continuously shoot frames at up to 60 frames per second. Alternately, SnappyCam could operate in time-lapse mode, grabbing as little as one frame per […]
Apple has acquired SnappyLabs, the one-man app developer behind SnappyCam, a high-speed continuous shooting photography app for iOS.
SnappyCam’s developer, John Papandriopoulos, developed SnappyCam, an app that enabled recent-model iPhones to continuously shoot frames at up to 60 frames per second.
Alternately, SnappyCam could operate in time-lapse mode, grabbing as little as one frame per hour. SnappyCam was a $1 application and saw success this past summer, prior to the release of either iOS 7 or the new iPhone 5s.
Photography has become a key differentiator between smartphones as they’ve become ubiquitous accessories. The iPhone 5s has a larger sensor, “True Tone” flash, auto-image stabilization and slow-motion video capabilities.
It can also capture images in a continuous burst mode, though it does so significantly slower than SnappyCam could – 10 photos per second.
The $0.99/£0.79 app – now been removed from the iOS App Store and Apple’s acquisition fits into its pattern of buying small companies and teams for specific features which are added to products over time.
