When HTC opened up their Zoe video creation app to Android users who were not rocking HTC devices, some Android users were pretty excited because of the collaborative nature of the app. It allowed your friends to add media to your video and to even remix other videos. But they weren’t probably prepared for the number of people who would be using their app, leading to crashes, performance issues, and user dissatisfaction. Now they’re updating the app, but it brings a good news, bad news situation.
The good news is that your Zoe videos will no longer be hosted on the cloud. This means when you’re creating your video and your network connection suddenly becomes wonky, then you won’t lose what you’re editing, like what usually happened before this update. So it means, the videos you make will be created and hosted locally on your device using its GPU and and onboard CPU so it’s much more stable. If you want to share it with others, then you’ll have to do it the old-fashioned way by uploading to your media sharing social networks.
But the bad news is that, since the creation and hosting will be done locally, then non-HTC devices will not be able to use the app anymore so they can focus on developing hardware for what they know best, as stated in their press release. So by September 30, not only will their cloud services shut down entirely, but you’ll only be able to make and share a Zoe through a supported HTC device.
The other good news for HTC users is that the update has also brought a few goodies like the maximum length now for videos is 3 minutes instead of just 30 seconds. You will be able to include as many clips as you want as long as it’s within that time frame. If you have a supported HTC device, you should update your Zoe app now.
SOURCE: Zoe
I’ve used this app about two or three times. More frustrations than satisfying results. Slow, clunky, not intuitive. I honestly wont give it another chance since barely anyone uses it, plus I can get similar results on Instagram.
Of course it is. It’s made by HTC