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by bostand 3455 days ago
Since you brought up your Pixel: what is the point of adding something 1% of your customers maybe can see instead fixing that horrible horrible compression that makes uploads from android (80% world wide market share) look like crap?

(Not an android user, I just want to figure out how a company of your size prioritises between bugs and features.)
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jrowley 3455 days ago
I can't speak for OP but say this does effect 1% of users today, what percentage does it effect in 6 months, or a year? Not bad to be proactive.

And regarding android compression issues, although resources are always finite, I imagine in this case the android team is fairly separate, so they may very well be working on that compression issue while iOS is pushing forward into new terrain.

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sorenjan 3454 days ago
Instagram should hire some faster Android developers if that is the case, it's been an issue since 2012:

https://www.xda-developers.com/a-look-into-instagrams-compre...

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zer0t3ch 3454 days ago
> I imagine in this case the android team is fairly separate

This is likely it, right here. So many people forget that larger companies have different teams working on different things. I bet a lot of their "iOS people" that are working on this project have no clue how the Android app works, and Instagram likely has a separate team working on the compression issues.

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izacus 3454 days ago
"Working on" since 2012?
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zer0t3ch 3454 days ago
I don't use IG, so I wasn't aware of that problem or how long it had been around. That said, the general sentiment stands: one of their teams working on one thing doesn't show that they don't have another team working on something unrelated.
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megablast 3454 days ago
> (80% world wide market share)

Not of instagram user. Not of app users.

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bostand 3454 days ago
Well, given how Instagram has treated its android users can you blame them?

I've seen a number of SV companies releasing ugly and buggy android apss then use their lowering android user base as a proof that android users use like their services.

To be honest, things could be worse. You could be a tinder user in win phone...

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