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Instagram Expected to Release iPad App Later This Year
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It’s sort-of understandable, given that iPad owners are only a fraction of smartphone owners, and there’s both the browser interface and the ability to run the iPhone app on iPad. That’s different from WhatsApp, which wasn’t usable at all on iPad.
Not offering an iPad app isn’t anticompetitive. Rather to the contrary, it allows competitors to better compete by offering an iPad app for their competing service.
To mine and sell your data much easier and quicker…
A higher resolution won’t make you look sharper.
Yep not being able to make calls/video calls etc is a killer, especially outside the US where Whatsapp is the default messaging app for a lot of people. With the iPad app you can do all that now which is so much better.
To be fair you *can* use the iPhone app on an iPad, it’s just stretched, so it’s not like access isnt there
Absolutely comically absurd that it took a company the size of Meta this long to do this.
Sounds like a political move. Maybe trying to show that they will build for all platforms and aren’t doing weird things like deliberately not building for a specific platform to weaponise their monopoly power against other companies.
I expect to see Google creating YT for Vision Pro etc .. simply to have something to show to regulators.
I expect to see Google creating YT for Vision Pro etc .. simply to have something to show to regulators.
Made the same move almost exactly a year ago. Haven’t looked back since.
It’s mainly because Apple competes better. Rather than getting the government involved, Apple just does better where they expect they can do better. That’s why we have the iPhone (and Android). It’s why we have the Apple Watch and why the wearables market is expanding.
Other companies lack the structure to compete effectively, so they have to depend on being able to get governments to that actions they would take and in some cases ARE taking (like restricting features from their competition) are only anticompetitive when Apple takes those actions. Apple knows all they have to do is just continue to sell hardware to folks that have money to spend and are comfortable spending it digitally, and the developers will come because that’s where the customers with money are. Apple were right about both WhatsApp AND Instagram and hundreds/thousands of other little apps that wouldn’t exist if the iPad wasn’t there, if the iPadOS wasn’t there, and if the iPadOS’s App Store wasn’t there. Oh, they’d exist on other platforms, to be sure, but one of those other platforms exist today and, while it has the far greater marketshare, the customers using iPads are far more valuable to developers.
And other companies could ABSOLUTELY focus on high value customers. They just don’t.
I love your posts. You always back up with facts. ❤️I guess they're all bots then
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has more than 100 million daily active users
It has surpassed 300 million monthly active users, too.www.theverge.com
Threads now has more than 100 million daily active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday. It’s a notable milestone not just because it’s a big number; it’s also the first time Meta has a daily active user figure publicly.
and Meta/Zuckerberg is lying to the SEC
Threads tops 350M monthly users after adding 30M in the quarter | TechCrunch
Instagram Threads, Meta's X competitor, has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during the company's Q1 2025techcrunch.com
Instagram Threads, Meta’s X competitor, has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call on Wednesday. That’s an increase of 30 million users since the prior quarter, where Meta reported that Threads had 320 million users.
While Threads is still small in comparison to Meta’s other social apps — Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp — its growth is helping to cement its place in the microblogging app ecosystem. In total, Meta says that more than 3.4 billion people now use at least one of Meta’s apps daily.
On Wednesday’s call, Zuckerberg told investors that the growth indicates that Threads “continues to be on track to become our next major social app.” He additionally noted that there’s been a 35% increase in time spent on Threads as a result of improvements to the app’s recommendations systems.
IG is like MTV. It veered from its wonderful original intent into utter crapdom.
think if the monthly active user gain they could have if they just made a calculator app while they were at it
You gotta give Insta a try another day but register completely new account. No friends, no people who know you, just for stuff you actually like to watch. This way you will re-tune the algorithm.
I probably deleted 15 Instagram accounts over the last 13 years but every time came back anyway, sometimes comebacks didn’t last more than 5 days🤣 Recently they have done some updates to both algorithm and under-the-hood that actually make app fun to use.
Also serves as a digital photo archive for me, I like adding music to my photos, hopefully they finally added this feature and you no longer receive bans for adding music
Well, someone actually uses that.
Many people have been upset with X going south recently and so they’ve migrated to Threads. I don’t use neither, don’t like this short message format and politicized/rant-based discussion style.
People are slowly realizing they want to get rid of politics in their social media and to use this to escape the grim reality not amplify it, this is btw why TikTok blew up worldwide: fun (or not so fun) brainrot content, simple yet effective. Instagram followed suit and now is a close contender, I don’t really get why Mark decides to push Threads thru Insta recommendations🤣
I guess Microsoft can take this title🤣
At least Mark gives his stuff for “free” and I know what “I am the product” for, and you gotta pay for Office and Windows and at the end of the day still have your data butchered, sold around and shown ads in the start menu, as well as telemetry all around