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"Though it's unsure if Instagram purposely planted this to get me tweet about it" I suppose it's game-over if Instagram is that good at inception. :-)
by danesparza 8y ago
"Though it's unsure if Instagram purposely planted this to get me tweet about it"
I suppose it's game-over if Instagram is that good at inception. :-)
- dibujaron 8y agoOoh, I don't know. If they regularly see people dig through their code and then tweet about what they find, planting things in the code sounds like a great way to "soft announce" features to gauge reaction. That way if they decide not to go forward, they don't lose face, it was just some unannounced feature that they were considering.
- r00fus 8y agoIt’s not like this sort of thing hasn’t been done in the Apple rumors ecosystem for a long time...
- geuszb 8y agoBig companies know that every one of their binaries gets torn apart by people eager for a scoop and have exploited this in the past. See for example https://www.androidpolice.com/2014/08/06/google-just-rickrolled-me-via-an-apk-teardown-and-im-not-even-mad/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2014/08/06/google-just-rickrol... (though this one was for a laugh)
- reshie 8y agohappens more than you may think. as for instagram doing it here i don't know either.