Why there's no Instagram on iPad? →: blog.amitgawande.com
@amit The lack of iPad support is one of the reasons I stopped posting to Instagram years ago. I’d always use an iPhone to take photos but sometimes I’d do the editing on my iPad before posting. I also preferred looking at the stream on my iPad.
@amit I think more people take photos using their iPads than ever would on a Galaxy Fold. So unless Instagram is still sticking to its ‘purist’ definition of what you should be using to take photos, it doesn’t make sense.
Many of the pro accounts on Instagram primarily use their DSLRs to take photos anyway and are using Instagram simply as a medium of distribution.
@ronguest Yeah, I think iPad is the best device for going through the timeline of posts. And recently, the screens on iPad too have been brilliant. Pity that FB doesn't prioritize iPad.
@pratik Yeah, I agree. But this is the only possibly reason I could think of about why Instagram still does not have an iPad optimized app. They still consider the app to be too casual for iPad use, may be?
@amit One reason is that Instagram prefers you produce instead of merely consuming (more likely on phones than iPad) and second perhaps more insidious is location-tracking since most iPads are non-cellular.
@pratik Then there is advertising. Having full screen photos in the current app also means full-screen advertising.