Instagram Is Coming To iPad, 15 Years Later

After years of requests, Instagram is finally releasing a dedicated iPad app on September 3rd... "But it will be slightly different than the mobile app users are accustomed to," reports The Verge. From the report: Most significantly, the iPad app will open directly to a feed of Reels, the company's TikTok competitor -- perhaps a sign of the short-form-video times. [...] Other features will be available on iPad: Stories will still line the top of the homepage, and users will be able to switch to a "Following" tab where they'll be able to swipe between feeds that more resemble the mobile Instagram experience (including a chronological option). The bigger screen means more space and fewer clicks: comments on Reels will appear next to full-size videos, and the DMs page will have your inbox alongside chats, similar to what Messenger looks like on desktop.

15 years...?

[cayenne8]

So...what is this Instagram thing?

I'm guessing some sort of social media thing, eh?

;)

Re:15 years...?

[know-nothing cunt]

I thought it was for quick cocaine delivery.

Meh...

[sit1963nz]

In another 15 years I STILL would not have used the products on any of my machines.

I have a general rule, if I can not use a standard web browser (where I run ad blockers etc etc etc) then I can not and will not use their system

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[registrations_suck]

Here is another general rule: nobody, let alone the likes of corporations worth billions or trillions of dollars, gives a fuck about your general rules or you in general. They will carry on without you, just fine.

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[sit1963nz]

A system that works for both parties. Perfect.

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[registrations_suck]

That's what I was thinking too.

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[ceoyoyo]

You can use instagram in a regular browser. They seem to have mostly forgotten about it so it's got circa 2015 fairly clean interface, no overlays and just shows posts from people you follow. They did remember to stick the stories in at the top though.

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[TheStickBoy]

I am imagining an Instagram Department of one person managing the 'web version'. Down in the basement wondering where his big red stapler is.

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[ceoyoyo]

I expect it's more like some photographer or graphic artist they hired when it was a startup who spends most of their time rocking in a corner mumbling "it's a photography site, it's a photography site."

Hmmpf

[iluvcrap2000]

Better be able to manage my subs, because doing it on the web sucks enormously and the mobile one is a pain in the butt to use.

Reels?

[Kevin108]

Gross. I'll pass.

Why does everything need to be Tiktok?

[thegarbz]

Does my car need short form videos? Does my email? What about my smartwatch? I don't understand this fascination of trying to change something into something it's not to chase a different trend. All you do is alienate your existing audience.

Off topic, but I think it's funny

[Petersko]

After ignoring Instagram (and almost all social media)completely, last year I finally caved and created an account to view one set of pictures. Within a week my account was frozen, and I received notice that it was because I was trying to hide my identity. I had some months to challenge the verdict, of the ban would become permanent.

Not only did I not challenge the ban, I found the email address of some random employee and sent them a thank you note, to be forwarded as needed. It read, in part, "Thank you f

Instagram is garbage

[RogueWarrior65]

I get notifications that people (aka real world friends) have posted a photo but when I go to look at it, it's something they posted a month ago. The app insists on showing me crap that I don't care about. Facebook is the same way. I mean, yes, from a business point of view, it makes sense. Meta doesn't make money on friends communicating with their friends. But I dare say that Gen Alpha is the only group that cares less about what their friends are up to than what a shit show the rest of the world is.

Just realize

[sinkskinkshrieks]

The Instagram iOS codebase was written in the distant past by an acquihired startup. When I last perused it, it was an enormous beast of nearly all Objective-C/C++, not (much) Swift, with tons of experiments and garbage code. Doing anything fast or new with it would be an incredible undertaking. It would probably be faster and cheaper to make a totally new app from scratch in Swift.