When asked why there isn’t an Instagram iPad app yet, CEO Adam Mosseri said the company would like to create one, «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.»
Instagram users have been asking for an official iPad app nearly since the social network launched in 2010, the same year that the first iPad was 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.
The obvious answer is, “Hire more people because you’re owned by one of the richest corporations in the world: Facebook.” But I wonder what the actual answer is. Invasive tracking isn’t as lucrative on iPadOS?
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It’s super frustrating to not be able to use the Instagram app in landscape mode with a keyboard on my iPad. I wouldn’t even care if it was the iPhone version of the app, if I could just rotate the screen.