Cisco kills the Flip.
The Flip camera is going bye-bye:
Cisco on Tuesday announced that it will… Close down its popular Flip business, acquired for $590 million in March 2009.
They can’t compete with “HD video-capable smartphones,” is the story.
I bought a Flip camera in 2008, because I wanted a cheap, easy video camera for the Republican National Convention. Check out my YouTube page, where most of those videos still live.
Sample:
Why, yes, that’s me interviewing then-rising-star Rep. Paul Ryan at the RNC. I also interviewed Scott Walker when he was still Milwaukee County Executive, but unbeknownst to me, the battery had run out. Which speaks more to the operator than the equipment.
You should have seen my itty bitty Flip camera mounted on top of a full-sized tripod. It was like a poodle mounting a Newfoundland.
Plus, I got an Instalanche when I emailed Glenn Reynolds about “covering the AFP Defending the American Dream Summit with my Flip camera.”
I wonder if he’ll still blog about them after they’re gone from the Best Buy shelves? Or will we be reduced to emailing him our latest posts about frying bacon using only the magnifying glass and empty fruit juice containers we got from our personal disaster preparedness kits?
Related thought: will digital cameras and mp3 players suffer the same fate as cell phones take over more and more of those functions? And GPS units?
And why, exactly, is anybody still publishing a phone book?
UPDATE - if you want to watch the rest of the interview, you can see it all here.
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Have you posted this before? I’ve never seen it.
Some day Ryan will tell his grandkids, “I knew that Burri guy before he got rich and famous!”
I was still blogging at Badger Blog Alliance then.
You know, I was talking to my accountant about the whole phone book thing just last week after a salesperson visited his office to try to sell him on it.
Just because you’re on the Internet all the time does not mean that everyone is. You would be surprised if you talked to people who are not in your Internet circle of friends and discovered just how many people don’t use computers that much or as a default knowledge resource.