Really? Flickr didn't believe in native apps? Or they didn't have enough iOS devs?

EDIT: Changed Yahoo to Flickr.

Native apps were owned by the mobile group, not the individual teams. And they didn't get have the people to do it. I'm sure Marissa will rectify it.

Wow! This is news to me. Even mobile group didn't have people to do it. When every goddamn investor was pumping money into photo sharing apps. Flickr had the most popular photo-sharing app till 2008 and they missed the mobile tidal wave!

This is the best telling of the history I've read so far:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1845592

They may have missed the tidal wave, but I was posting mobile photos on Flickr in 2005 :(

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spullara/2904629/in/photostream...