When you sell it. You take the money and it’s not yours anymore. Doesn’t matter what’s said, this is just how it is. This shouldn’t be confusing.
Agreements and contracts can dictate otherwise.
When Zuckerberg Asserted Control, Instagram’s Founders Chafed
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#32One thing omitted from the Instagram genesis story is that they effectively stole the Hipstamatic "filters" feature and added a basic timeline a la Twitter. Sharing to Twitter fueled their growth from that point. And the rest is history!
Sounds like they made a good product
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#33I'm not sure that Facebook using Instagram as a way to funnel people back to Facebook is a great strategy. Companies need to be willing to cannibalize themselves or someone will do it for them. I don't know if Zuck had the foresight at the time, but Instagram has obviously been an amazing hedge against apps like Snapchat. People like Instagram and Snapchat partly because they are less formal than Facebook, most users…
> my girlfriend is always shocked (and a bit annoyed) when I tell her.
Is this is a 50 First Dates type of situation?
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#34I'm not sure that Facebook using Instagram as a way to funnel people back to Facebook is a great strategy. Companies need to be willing to cannibalize themselves or someone will do it for them. I don't know if Zuck had the foresight at the time, but Instagram has obviously been an amazing hedge against apps like Snapchat. People like Instagram and Snapchat partly because they are less formal than Facebook, most users…
That sounds intriguing. What is she annoyed?
What apps (social media, news, or entertainment) are popular with her and her friends? I'm surprised why something better hasn't come along than FB.
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#35I'm not on FB. I also haven't used Instagram for a while. How has Instagram changed in the last few years?
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#36I'm not sure that Facebook using Instagram as a way to funnel people back to Facebook is a great strategy. Companies need to be willing to cannibalize themselves or someone will do it for them. I don't know if Zuck had the foresight at the time, but Instagram has obviously been an amazing hedge against apps like Snapchat. People like Instagram and Snapchat partly because they are less formal than Facebook, most users…
"Companies need to be willing to cannibalize themselves or someone will do it for them." --> This. exactly what Steve Jobs said when the iPhone was launched and there were questions about if the iPhone would cannibalize the iPod.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Heh. The "shouldShowAlertForRequest" function is checking if a userInfo.message key equaling "Not authorized to view user". I would have expected something a little less dependent on a string isEqual check against an English phrase.
But, admit it - we've all been there at some point.
Usually due to some "lesser of evil" solution as a result of some UI or system library, which in this case might be handling the alerts.
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#38Side note: For anyone interested, the third picture down[1] in the article is a fairly high resolution photo of a computer monitor where you can see Xcode and some very neat Objective-C code. [1]: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/09/25/business/25INSTAG...
I wonder when this picture was taken. The iPhone design in the simulator, the old Gmail favicon, the old OS X scrollbars all indicate this being several years old. Wouldn't be surprised if this code has been rewritten multiple times since.
not to mention the hipstamatic'esq picture
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Heh. The "shouldShowAlertForRequest" function is checking if a userInfo.message key equaling "Not authorized to view user". I would have expected something a little less dependent on a string isEqual check against an English phrase.
But, admit it - we've all been there at some point.
More than one point
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#40> As Instagram kept on growing, Mr. Zuckerberg believed there were ways it should help Facebook grow and improve Facebook’s “user engagement.” That included small tweaks, like automatically sharing Instagram “Stories” videos to Facebook without clear signs indicating the videos were taken on Instagram.
That's a little sneaky. I had started to notice more stories when I opened FB, and it was always the people I'm also friends with on Instagram. I hadn't realized that they may be coming from Instagram.
> Earlier this year, Facebook also removed a shortcut link to Instagram from its “bookmarks” menu inside the Facebook app, a small but significant source of traffic that flowed from Facebook to Instagram.
What would the point of this be? Why would FB want to shut off traffic to another one of their properties?