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Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by lostgame »

moooo99 wrote: post #105

Personally, I find basically everything about Instagram bad. The only reason I use it is because a lot of my friends share their pictures there. Their app is full of bugs, at least on my regular Android phone, dark mode always messes up, ghost notifications, random crashes, etc. The platform is full of bots. My profile is set to private, so everybody who wants to follow me needs to request first. On some days, I get…

I was an early adopter of both Instagram and the iPad. (As an iOS developer, even at the time; I have to keep up with the ecosystem as it evolves.)

I waited for years for them to create an iPad-compatible version. It is literally one of the only apps I use that still uses iPhone mode on an iPad.

'According to Mosseri (Instagram CEO), the reason for Instagram’s iPhone-only app is that the company doesn’t have the resources to develop for both platforms.'[1]

Eye. Roll. If little indie shops can have this out of the gate, I'm sure you could figure out a way to allocate some of your resources to a tablet version.

It's been ten years since both the iPad and Instagram. I get that Instagram is a photo-taking app; and typically you'd use a phone for that. Many of my friends are iPad-only on the Apple ecosystem; and they enjoy taking and editing photos, especially with the Apple Pencil, on the device.

The new iPad Pros have excellent cameras for the hardware - not nearly as great as; say, the iPhone 11, but worthy of taking pictures and it happens all the time.

[1]https://9to5mac.com/2020/02/16/instagram-ipad-app-excuse/

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by spicyramen »

bobobob420 wrote: post #138
vsareto wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix I'm sorry, but that show was really, really dumb and unrealistic and I couldn't sit through it. 3 engineers (notably: cringey white dudes) are never following one single user and controlling his interactions like that and it did more harm than good by pretending it works that way. This implies someone is directly accountable, showing up to work every day and fucking with people'…

Why bring up the skin color of the people in the show? What relevance does it have? And I am brown Incase you were wondering as I know skin color is important to you

+1 to it, SV culture is racist now against white people. Stop looking at color we are all the same inside if cut open

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by burlesona »

parsimoniousplb wrote: post #47
orev wrote: post #35

Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix, see how far off the rails the industry has gone, then come back and tell me that Apple is the bad guy here. Someone needs to start standing up for what’s right, and Apple is probably the only one with the size and cash reserves to be able to do it. For all the free market cheerleaders, remember this: we already have laws in place preventing or regulating businesses from engaging…

There are no democracies being "toppled" via instagram, there are only some liberal parties being voted out of office as their policies have been massive failures, which is democracy working as intended.

You should read this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44244963-breaking-the-tw...

I agree that democracy in the US is shaky, but it has more to do with failures of both sides caused by the system. Really worthwhile read.

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by vsareto »

bobobob420 wrote: post #138
vsareto wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix I'm sorry, but that show was really, really dumb and unrealistic and I couldn't sit through it. 3 engineers (notably: cringey white dudes) are never following one single user and controlling his interactions like that and it did more harm than good by pretending it works that way. This implies someone is directly accountable, showing up to work every day and fucking with people'…

Why bring up the skin color of the people in the show? What relevance does it have? And I am brown Incase you were wondering as I know skin color is important to you

Diversity in tech is a problem and this show was reinforcing that.

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by mlyle »

stonith wrote: post #122
falcolas wrote: post #68

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Which is still gambling, just on the contents of the next box. It’s obfuscating the gambling, and it’s unfortunately working.

That doesn't meet any definition of gambling I'm aware of. It's equivalent to having a daily sale on a set of products.

If you want to get all the cool items, you can wait till tomorrow for one of them to maybe show up as an offer, or you can buy boxes until they are offered to you. It might be the very next box!!

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by SergeAx »

> but if their ads are less effective without privacy invasive user-tracking, then so be it, they’re less effective

For end advertisers IDFA is not about effectiveness, it's about measuring: we've spent $N on ads at platform X and got Y installs/purchases. Then they can tag those customers with source X and track lifetime value per source.

Without analytics like that we are back to times of TV and newspaper and billboard ads, and small business just may not afford that.

I think that's the point of original quote. I am not a big fan of Facebook and Instagram, but their ad targeting is indeed best on the market. I understand Apple just want to redirect that cash stream into it's own pocket (see "Apple own search engine" leak couple of weeks ago).

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by nogabebop23 »

frosted-flakes wrote: post #39
orev wrote: post #35

Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix, see how far off the rails the industry has gone, then come back and tell me that Apple is the bad guy here. Someone needs to start standing up for what’s right, and Apple is probably the only one with the size and cash reserves to be able to do it. For all the free market cheerleaders, remember this: we already have laws in place preventing or regulating businesses from engaging…

You can support a company for some of its actions while also condemning it for others. It's totally legitimate to be on Epic's side in the Apple vs Epic lawsuit while also supporting Apple's privacy measures.

I agree with this belief, as well as not letting perfect be the enemy of better, as in this case: I can choose Apple over FB while still not liking Apple.

The problem is it's really hard to hold these apparently contradictory positions in your head at the same time. We love binary distinctions on single dimension axes because our brains are more efficiently with this paradigm. In truth the world at any degree of scale does not work this way and we've got to do a better job developing more nuanced personal positions.

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by scarface74 »

tpush wrote: post #112
scarface74 wrote: post #95

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And Epic has been found guilty since then of illegally convincing minors to spend money in Fortnite. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191008/08591443147/epic-...

The linked article neither found Epic guilty (they settled) nor was it even about Epic convincing minors to spend money, but about Epic suing Fortnite cheaters, one of whom apparently was a minor. Please don't willingly spread misinformation like this.

Wrong link.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-fortnite-sued-trick...

> U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers announced a ruling yesterday which stated that Fortnite had convinced minors to spend money in game without parental consent. This ruling keeps Epic on the hook for its misleading business practices.

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by bad_user »

spicyramen wrote: post #142
bobobob420 wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why bring up the skin color of the people in the show? What relevance does it have? And I am brown Incase you were wondering as I know skin color is important to you

+1 to it, SV culture is racist now against white people. Stop looking at color we are all the same inside if cut open

Saying that there's racism against whites, especially in SV, is shortsighted at best, malicious at worst.

No, you're not discriminated as a white dude in STEM. You're in fact the most privileged of the privileged. Stfu.

- another white dude in STEM

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