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Yahoo! finally! releases! Flickr! app! for! iPad! BUT! shuns! Windows! fans!
Purple Palace got selective hearing, much?
Yahoo! has finally developed a Flickr app for Apple's iPad – but the move has upset Microsoft Windows' fans who have accused the Purple Palace of having "selective hearing" about its userbase.
The Marissa Mayer-run company, which bought photo-sharing site Flickr in 2005, said on Friday that it had cooked up an app for Cupertino's fondleslab years after it first landed.
Flickr tweeted: "We've heard you loud and clear!" It then linked to a blog post announcing the update.
But users waded in with complaints about Yahoo! failing to develop an app for users of the Windows Phone and Windows RT.
@Flickr well I'll whisper quietly , why don't you give a stuff about Windows Phone ignoring it completely ??? @Microsoft #WindowsPhone
— Stephen Quin (@stephenquin58) October 18, 2014
@Flickr great, what about bringing it to WP and Windows RT? Or do you have a selective ear ignoring part of your users?
— Massis Sirapian (@Massis_) October 18, 2014
@Flickr and #WindowsPhone ? And #Windows ? You ignore us ? You ignore 10% of european market !
— Nicolas Morellet (@morellet_n) October 18, 2014
.@Flickr great, now how about a @Windows and @windowsphone app? The SAME amount of iPad users = Windows 8 users.
— Alan Peto (@alanpeto) October 18, 2014
@Flickr Hear me loud & clear when I want Flickr on my #Windows phone & tablet! :)
— Tobias Weisserth (@polarapfel) October 18, 2014
Meanwhile, Yahoo! said its retina-optimised Flickr app for the iPad, which runs on iOS 8, "can now display images in high resolution by pushing up to 3 million pixels per photo."
The app also comes loaded with editing tools and, er, "live filters", you lucky, lucky fanbois. ®