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by zer0t3ch 3444 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 3444 days ago
"Working on" since 2012?
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zer0t3ch 3444 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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