Path is poised to be pretty huge despite the popularity of other photo-sharing apps like Instagram, but its limitations make it very unattractive to users who are accustomed to over-sharing. The idea behind Path is that, since you’re limited to only 50 friends with whom to share photos, you can truly be yourself. You get to choose the friends who get to see your photos, so you’re more likely to share things that you’d probably keep to yourself if you knew that strangers or random acquaintances were looking.
Unfortunately, it launched only for the iPhone, which meant that only your iPhone-toting friends would see photos. Are your closest friends Android or BlackBerry users? Shame, you’ll be sharing your photos with a party of one: yourself.
Another limitation was that you could only share photos taken from within the app. Path wanted to users to chronicle their journeys with their iPhones, apparently, and so allowed only photos taken with the Apple smartphone using the app. The latest update makes a minor change in that you can upload photos from your iPhone’s photo album as long as the pictures were taken with the device’s camera. Technically, the concept remains the same but the minor-yet-annoying limitation was lifted. After all, what are you to do with all those photos with cool, degraded, tattered filters applied on them if you couldn’t share them on Path?
The nifty thing is that if you choose to upload a photo that you took previously from the iPhone’s photo album, Path will mine the photo’s information so that it is geo-tagged appropriately (i.e. where the photo was taken, not where you’re currently uploading it from). But, as you can see in the image above, it still has some kinks to iron out. I promise you I did not take a photo of the Empire State Building off the west coast of Africa — although it would be cool if I did manage that somehow. You know what? Let’s just say I did and we’ll leave it at that.
The latest Path update also tweaked the profile page a bit and you can very easily see whom you’re sharing with and it makes it easier to un-share with users, too.
The update is available now, so hit up the app store for it. Or if you haven’t downloaded it yet and it the idea of this photo sharing app tickles your fancy, it’s free in the iTunes app store.
[Via: TechCrunch]