Starmatic
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Type of site | Photo sharing |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, French |
| Headquarters | , |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| URL | www |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | September 2012 |
| Current status | Discontinued |
Starmatic was a social networking-enabled photo sharing and filtering application for the Apple iPhone, launched in September 2012.
Starmatic made its debut on the Apple App Store on September 5, 2012, gained almost 500,000 users, and was discontinued in May 2014.
Backstory
The Starmatic application was named after the Starmatic Brownie camera introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1959.[1] Starmatic was part of Kodak's Brownies Star series launched in 1957. Made of plastic and relatively cheap, Starmatic fell in the category of toy cameras and was sold over an estimated 10 million units in 5 years.[2]
The icon and the camera of the application were modeled after the original Starmatic camera while the two rolls of filters, Starmacolor and Starmachrome, have been inspired by the 127 films used by Starmatic cameras.