[onedev]

I think video's killer feature is the image stabilization. A large percentage of bad videos are because they're shaky as hell.

[dakrisht]

This is not a "killer feature" - Apple already includes a Class in iOS for video stabilization (AVCaptureConnection Class). This is just regurgitated marketing crap, as usual.

[onedev]

It's completely proprietary tech developed by a team of image processing specialists on the Instagram team.

It does not use any standard iOS libraries in any way whatsoever.

[workbench]

Because it can't due to Android interoperability. Seen as they removed real time filters from the iOS version to make it more like the Android version

[malandrew]

Color correction can't hurt either.