Yahoo CEO: " ...there is no such thing really as professional photographers"

[Overread]

flickr's interest in pandering to professional photographer is.. zero. Why on earth would they give a crap what some tiny group of non-customers would think?

Lots of pros moved over to 500, zen and other pro sites. They don't care much about flickr.

to be honest most of that was because 500, Zen and others were new and thus had small populations and thus didn't have the "riff raff" who were lesser photographers. Plus smaller communities are always attractive - people naturally prefer to be part of smaller communities where they can feel PART of the community - than being in huge ones where they are clearly just a tiny insignificant cog in the machine.

Of course the other factor is that flickr never allowed you to use photos hosted on their service for marketing or sales - they were always just for photo sharing not profit so many pros only got onto flickr for the exposure and not much more (or just to share photos in a good environment). They always used a different host or their own website for their commercial stuff.

 

[manaheim]

This thread has it all...

- grousing over change - any change
- second guessing seasoned CEOs of multinational corporations
- armchair quarterbacking critical business decisions
- slight over being denied the hallowed title of professional

I wish we could just all reasonably discuss interesting turns of events in our worlds rather than getting so bent out of shape by them.

 

[Steve5D]

I wish we could just all reasonably discuss interesting turns of events in our worlds rather than getting so bent out of shape by them.

That can only happen, though, when people are able to stop being offended by something someone else says, and which will never affect them.

Ever.

If the CEO of Yahoo believes there's no such thing as a "professional photographer", I would be hard pressed to really give a rat's ass.

Seriously, how is this even a matter of remote concern?

 

[Dikkie]

This thread has it all...

AFAIK, it's a conspiracy

 

[amolitor]

If too many people believe I don't exist, I will vanish.

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

So she's apologized now and attempting to clear the air:

Marissa Mayer Sorry for "Misstatement" on Professional Photographers

 

[runnah]

So she's apologized now and attempting to clear the air:

Marissa Mayer Sorry for "Misstatement" on Professional Photographers

Ironically you can tell she used a pro photographer for her twitter avatar. I wonder why she just didn't get a friend with a camera to take it?

 

[o hey tyler]

So she's apologized now and attempting to clear the air:

Marissa Mayer Sorry for "Misstatement" on Professional Photographers

Twitter: The universally accepted venue to voice an apology.

 

[runnah]

So she's apologized now and attempting to clear the air:

Marissa Mayer Sorry for "Misstatement" on Professional Photographers

Twitter: The universally accepted venue to voice an apology.

Twitter is like giving people a loaded gun that shoots stupid instead of bullets.

 

[Greiver]

I wish we could just all reasonably discuss interesting turns of events in our worlds rather than getting so bent out of shape by them.

And you expect that to happen on the Internet of all places?

 

[Overread]

I wish we could just all reasonably discuss interesting turns of events in our worlds rather than getting so bent out of shape by them.

And you expect that to happen on the Internet of all places?

As a mod yes - yes I do - and when it doesn't happen evil things can happen

 

[Alex_B]

never used that service anyway

 

[Dikkie]

Want from Pro to Free, today.
There was no benefit anymore for a pay account...

Hoping to get my refund the next 5-10 days as they showed on screen...

 

[Steve5D]

It remains no big deal...

 

[Dikkie]

Hoping to get my refund the next 5-10 days as they showed on screen...

to let you know that I got my money refunded already