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Instagram CEO Says iPad App Hasn't Been Made Yet Because 'We Only Have So Many People, and Lots to Do'

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Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri took to the platform over the weekend to answer a few user questions on his story, shared by The Verge's Chris Welch. Among the many things asked, the topic of an official iPad app for Instagram was brought up, and Mosseri explained why we haven't seen one yet.

According to Mosseri, the company "would like to build an iPad app" for Instagram, "But we only have so many people, and lots to do, and it hasn't bubbled up as the next best thing to do yet."

Instagram is technically viewable on iPad in a number of ways, but the company has never released a first-party iPad app that's been optimized for the tablet.

Instagram users have been asking for an official iPad app nearly since the social network launched in 2010, the same year that the first iPad was released. Some alternatives include third-party Instagram apps for iPad, browsing Instagram on the web on iPad, or using the upscaled iPhone app on iPad.


In another small tidbit shared during the Q&A, Mosseri explained that a very small group of Instagram users never see ads of any kind in the app, so that Instagram can "understand the effect of that."

Following the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook and its family of companies have been pivoting and focusing on numerous security and privacy-related issues, as well as trying to make their platforms less hostile. As a recent example, Instagram began hiding "likes" from user posts last November, in an effort to "depressurize" the platform.

Amid all of the scandals, Instagram's original co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger left Facebook in 2018, leading way for Mosseri's advancement from the Facebook news team to Instagram CEO.

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Too busy thinking of ways to further monetize your data or accidentally leak it to work on an optimized app that could work on both iPhone and iPad?

I feel like there are tools out there that could help make that an easier task than Instagram claims.
 
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In my mind it isn’t that hard. They don’t have to write a whole new app, just scale it up and optimize a bit. How long could it take, a month or two for a team of about 10? There must be more to it for them to be dragging their feet so hard
 
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in other words: "we have other priorities than trying to improve our users' customer experience"
because how could they possibly have the resources to build an an app for iPad that already has an iPhone counterpart - obviously impossible. people are demanding too much from such a small company
 
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Totally lame excuse, you have person app developers, what’s the big deal with writing a larger viewer with iPad specific touch capabilities? Pull some of the lazy devs off Facebook development and require them to build a version for the iPad. Or here is an idea, 25% of your app development time to Instagram development. You are not reinventing the wheel here folks, its the same code base.

This is just Mark being rude.
 
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They have all their developers working on the issue of a few people who never see ads problem. Once they can force everyone to view ads, they'll have an iPad version out the next day. Y'all can bank on it.
 
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I'm no expert, but isn't it as simple as modifying the iPhone app? Maybe do that as a patch until you have a dedicated team for the actual iPad app. Build a user base and maybe you'll see the need.
 
Sp00k said:
In my mind it isn’t that hard. They don’t have to write a whole new app, just scale it up and optimize a bit. How long could it take, a month or two for a team of about 10? There must be more to it for them to be dragging their feet so hard
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Many great apps have been made by one single person. One Desinger/Producer and two devs would be plenty. Existing QA could do that part of the job.
 
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