RUMORS

Apple To Announce New Photo Sharing Social Network At WWDC

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal Apple will be unveiling an upgraded iCloud service at WWDC in June. Citing the usual sources ‘familiar with the matter’, the report claims the features will will allow iCloud users to share sets of photos with other iCloud users. At the moment users can only store one set of images in iCloud through Photo Stream, designed to sync those photos to other Apple devices, not to share them, per se.

It’s common knowledge that Phil Schiller abandoned Instagram when they went over to ‘the dark side’ in other words, Android and perhaps this is another reason why…

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Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.