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Does anyone else find it super-strange that, as what is consistently one of the top ten iOS applications in the App Store, and a massive company now purchased b

Does anyone else find it super-strange that, as what is consistently one of the top ten iOS applications in the App Store, and a massive company now purchased by an even more massive company, Instagram can not be bothered to produce a native iPad app? It's been 8 years (the first iPad was released in 2010) and the platform has certainly proven itself not to be a fad. Instagram looks like an actual joke on my iPad Pro 12".

djstein 8y ago
I believe they have focused on their web app for this. Turning it into a home screen based web application has been far better. Not as great as a native app, but better than the iPhone one scaled up!
- lostgame 8y ago
  Okay, so put a WebKit wrapper around that?
  - sterlind 8y ago
    Is there some one-click way to "bottle" web apps like this on demand? I'm thinking of something that does some light crawling, fills its cache up, shims xmlhttprequests for static data, and sandwiches it in a shell. It wouldn't be perfect, but it could always fall back on the real site when its cache falls through..
    - lostgame 8y ago
      Yup. Cordova / PhoneGap pretty much more-or-less does the trick for this.
    - hunter2_ 8y ago
      You don't even need a native bottle. The site just needs to offer a PWA manifest and associated service worker functionality. https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/ https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/
cududa 8y ago
They’ve tested it time and time again, most recently last year. There’s less posting of images and stories which they figured would lower engagement across the app in general if there was marginally less content (they see it as their high growth crown jewel). I suspect when growth plateaus we’ll see the iPad app
- samstave 8y ago
  But that's a lame argument: I don't expect iPad to be the primary device for posting, but you should be able to have a fine consuming experience in it. It feels like running a 640x480 app on a 4k capable screen. It's a joke that they would ignore what a crappy experience it is.
  - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
    If you're not interested in posting why not just use instagram.com?
    - samstave 8y ago
      It feels like running a 640x480 app on a 4k capable screen. It's a joke that they would ignore what a crappy experience it is.

djstein 8y ago

I believe they have focused on their web app for this. Turning it into a home screen based web application has been far better. Not as great as a native app, but better than the iPhone one scaled up!

lostgame 8y ago
Okay, so put a WebKit wrapper around that?
- sterlind 8y ago
  Is there some one-click way to "bottle" web apps like this on demand? I'm thinking of something that does some light crawling, fills its cache up, shims xmlhttprequests for static data, and sandwiches it in a shell. It wouldn't be perfect, but it could always fall back on the real site when its cache falls through..
  - lostgame 8y ago
    Yup. Cordova / PhoneGap pretty much more-or-less does the trick for this.
  - hunter2_ 8y ago
    You don't even need a native bottle. The site just needs to offer a PWA manifest and associated service worker functionality. https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/ https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

cududa 8y ago

They’ve tested it time and time again, most recently last year. There’s less posting of images and stories which they figured would lower engagement across the app in general if there was marginally less content (they see it as their high growth crown jewel). I suspect when growth plateaus we’ll see the iPad app

samstave 8y ago
But that's a lame argument: I don't expect iPad to be the primary device for posting, but you should be able to have a fine consuming experience in it. It feels like running a 640x480 app on a 4k capable screen. It's a joke that they would ignore what a crappy experience it is.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  If you're not interested in posting why not just use instagram.com?
  - samstave 8y ago
    It feels like running a 640x480 app on a 4k capable screen. It's a joke that they would ignore what a crappy experience it is.