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by kridsdale1 474 days ago
I have worked in the Instagram ios source. It is FUCKING AWFUL.

They’re impressive in their business success given their code quality.

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I don’t think I’ve ever worked anywhere that had decent code quality
There isn't even a real iPad app (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Worth considering that this is an explicit business decision (not enough iPad users to justify the development effort), versus a technical one. There were various builds with proper iPad layout floating around internally, but no one ever got the management buy-in to polish it enough to ship.