{"id":28161,"date":"2020-02-17T17:02:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T22:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28161"},"modified":"2020-02-28T16:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:15:40","slug":"why-theres-no-instagram-ipad-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/why-theres-no-instagram-ipad-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Why There&rsquo;s No Instagram iPad App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/02\/17\/instagram-ceo-ipad-app\/\">Mitchel Broussard<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/f59tvb\/instagram_ceo_says_ipad_app_hasnt_been_made_yet\/\">Reddit<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/02\/17\/instagram-ceo-ipad-app\/\"><p>Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri took to the platform over the weekend to answer a few user questions on his story, shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chriswelch\/status\/1228536808495075328\"><em>The Verge<\/em>&rsquo;s Chris Welch<\/a>. Among the many things asked, the topic of an official iPad app for Instagram was brought up, and Mosseri explained why we haven&rsquo;t seen one yet.<\/p><p>According to Mosseri, the company &ldquo;would like to build an  iPad  app&rdquo; for Instagram, &ldquo;But we only have so many people, and lots to do, and it hasn&rsquo;t bubbled up as the next best thing to do yet.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It seems like there must be more to it than that. Even if they didn&rsquo;t want to reimagine the app for iPad, they could tweak the iPhone app to make it fill the whole screen. So either they predict so little value for an iPad app&mdash;even multiplied by the huge size of their userbase&mdash;or an iPad app would somehow be a negative. Do they get more tracking and user data if you browse on an iPad in Safari?<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/05\/universal-purchase\/\">Universal Purchase<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/30\/dropbox-ignore-feature-in-beta\/\">Dropbox Ignore Feature in Beta<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"why-theres-no-instagram-ipad-app-update-2020-02-22\">Update (2020-02-22): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chen_mobile\/status\/1229869868658225152\">Chen Li<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chen_mobile\/status\/1229869868658225152\">\n<p>Half baked is still a ton of effort - thinks all the basic features that need supporting: feed, creation, direct, stories, security. People would rate one star without any of these features. It&rsquo;s basically another IG app for a super small % of people<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"why-theres-no-instagram-ipad-app-update-2020-02-24\">Update (2020-02-24): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1231365354015907842\">Tanner Bennett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NSExceptional\/status\/1231365354015907842\">\n<p>All of these exist in the iPhone app. Can you elaborate on what exactly is wrong with just blowing these up with a few split view controllers here and there, etc?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"why-theres-no-instagram-ipad-app-update-2020-02-28\">Update (2020-02-28): <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/02\/25\/instagram-ipad\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/02\/25\/instagram-ipad\">\n<p>My best guess is they think engagement on the phone is worth more, so they do everything they can to drive you to the phone app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchel Broussard (Reddit): Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri took to the platform over the weekend to answer a few user questions on his story, shared by The Verge&rsquo;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&rsquo;t seen one yet.According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-02-17T22:02:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"d9c79c62-0926-49f0-8c6b-49e3cf72e8f4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-02-28T21:15:43Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAw==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2cecYgkmSfCMa0njz3Lo9A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1286,31,1667,26,145],"class_list":["post-28161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-instagram","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-iosapp","tag-ipad"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28264,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28161\/revisions\/28264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}