PsykX
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1 for 2 weeks.
It's really simple to accomplish.
They are hiding other reasons behind their agenda.
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Instagram Head Says iPad App Is Low Priority Because Not Enough People Want It
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It's really simple to accomplish.
They are hiding other reasons behind their agenda.
That, and probably their research shows that keeping people on iPhone provides more use time. To these companies the amount of eyeball time is everything.
Funnily enough, “casual” use can amount to more time than focused use.
He must mean, he won’t pay enough to get good employees. Actual effort required to add iPad support to an iPhone app is not much. After all, it is already in Xcode, so adding a different screen layout? Is this guy clueless on purpose, or just incompetent?
Right. Get it a lot, but there’s not enough demand. Bass ackwards.
I don’t use Instagram, but with all the money they have, they can’t hire some interns to strictly work on this? Can’t be too difficult.
Rychiar
macrumors 601
Don’t iPad apps practically write themselves? This is as stupid as how iPad Facebook doesn’t have a dark mode🙄
It takes minute to make an iPad app if they wanted to.
Meta is just truly the ********* of companies.
Meta is just truly the ********* of companies.
lazyrighteye
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This is most likely, aka; honest, reason.
Saying it's too low a priority is a pretty lazy response. Why would users want to view content of an image-first app on larger screen? 🙄
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I really don’t understand instagram’s popularity? I tried it once when someone shared with me photos on it. Couldn’t believe that as a photo sharing platform I couldn’t zoom in (without it snapping back) or flick left/right to go to the next photo! Haven’t touched it since. I know the young people don’t use it, so is it mainly a middle aged people thing?
‘We can’t get GPS geolocation data from most iPad users so we want to push them to use IG on iPhone only’
I'm not an instagram user and even I want a native iPad version
Translation: "not enough potential ad revenue and loss of user privacy to make it worth our while."
MisterSavage
macrumors 603
You would not believe the number of times on here I've seen ridiculous statements from people about this. "But no one posts pictures from an iPad!" As if wanting to browse other people's photos/stories on a device with a much larger screen was such a strange concept.
JM
macrumors 601
marco114
macrumors 6502
Seriously? I finished my first app last week, it was more complex than Instagram and even I, as a solo developer, was able to make it work on iPad. I know they use React - Native, and it's really not hard to make it work on iPad.
I don't use instagram. Do the photos look awful on computer screens? Or is this less of a storage problem, and more of a bandwidth thing?
Greenmeenie
macrumors 68020
I know right?! Plus, Instagram is one of the biggest platforms for professional photographers to connect & get their work seen. It’s not just for models puckering their lips! You’d think IG would want to make photographers happy. They are a huge part of their base. But also anyone with an iPad. It’s just silly that they won’t make an iPad app. They are a huge company owned by Face Book! There are lesser apps that have an iPad specific app as well as a phone app. 🤦♂️
Greenmeenie
macrumors 68020
Money? Gimme a break. Instagram is owned by one of the biggest companies in the world! Making an iPad App would be chump change for them. There are small Mom & pop companies with iPad specific apps. It makes zero sense.