This tends to stretch the limits of credibility as to why Instagram has yet to create a native iPad app for iOS.
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, in an interview with The Verge, answered a number of questions over the weekend. Among these, Mosseri stated that the company “would like to build an iPad app” for Instagram, “But we only have so many people, and lots to do, and it hasn’t bubbled up as the next best thing to do yet.”
While Instagram is technically viewable on the iPad, the company has never released a first-party iPad app optimized for the tablet.
Instagram users have requested an official iPad add since 2010, the year both the social network and the first iPad were released.Some alternatives include third-party Instagram apps for iPad, browsing Instagram on the web on iPad, or using the upscaled iPhone app on iPad.
In another small tidbit shared during the Q&A, Mosseri explained that a very small group of Instagram users never see ads of any kind in the app, so that Instagram can “understand the effect of that.”
Following the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook and its family of companies have been pivoting and focusing on numerous security and privacy-related issues, as well as trying to make their platforms less hostile. As a recent example, Instagram began hiding “likes” from user posts last November, in an effort to “depressurize” the platform.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via The Mac Observer and Twitter