[nswanberg]

Bringing up photo sharing apps was perhaps only a setup for bagging on over-excited storage technology enthusiasts, and I think I agree with your larger point of ignoring the somewhat arbitrary values of in groups, but with that said...

Only in the last five or so years have large groups of people been carrying around high-quality usable digital cameras with permanent internet connectivity, and even in those years the picture quality, usability, and connectivity have been getting better, and the number of devices out their keeps growing.

World wide web search has been thought to have been solved several times until Google came along, and even now, fortunately, folks have not given up on solving the problem of people searching for things.

So in five years how can a bunch of male 20-something storage fetishists in SV have solved all of the problems of photo sharing for everyone? Surely there are problems to solve remaining for them, or for anyone else who do not share their particular needs and want to take a crack.

And there are quite a few more problems to be solved in people sharing pictures of things.

[jakejake]

I think you are right, but it probably won't be a company that's essentially copying whatever every current "cool" startup is doing but putting an "r" on the end of their company name. It'll be people who truly innovate.