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Not sure I believe this. Instagram could’ve conceivably killed Facebook a decade ago if they’d chosen not to sell. Reminds me of Steve Jobs talking about Micros
by shuckles 4y ago
Not sure I believe this. Instagram could’ve conceivably killed Facebook a decade ago if they’d chosen not to sell. Reminds me of Steve Jobs talking about Microsoft bringing about the dark ages of desktop computing: https://512pixels.net/2010/05/the-desktop-computer-industry-is-dead/ https://512pixels.net/2010/05/the-desktop-computer-industry-....
- philistine 4y agoThe dark age of social networks was absolutely started the second Facebook bought Instagram. We're still in it.
- madrox 4y agoThen the question becomes whether Instagram would’ve become Facebook if they kept going. I believe they would have once they hit Facebook’s scale. Ironically, I believe you could take that Jobs quote, swap Apple for Microsoft, and you’d be talking about the mobile industry. I doubt I’m even the first person to observe that. You really do become the villain if you gain enough market dominance.