Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri once again confirmed that the iPad version of the social network is not a priority on the company’s agenda. He made this statement through stories on his profile during a question and answer session.
His statement reiterates a view already made public in March last year, when Mosseri declared that developing a version of Instagram for Apple tablets was not among the company’s main interests.
At the time, the executive director stated that there was not a large enough user group to justify the investment of resources required for this adaptation, so it remained on the back burner.
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The CEO made this statement during a conversation with video content producer Marqués Brownlee in a thread on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter).
In this speech, Mosseri also emphasized that Instagram is already available on various platforms: Including iOS, web, Android, which is one of the largest in terms of active users.
The American businessman recently touched upon the issue once again in a series of questions and answers he shared on Instagram stories. On this occasion, he confirmed that the company was “not currently working on this issue”.
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Despite this, Mosseri admitted: Instagram app optimized for iPad tablets could be “something useful” in the future. However, he emphasized that currently the company is focusing on other strategic priorities to increase the services it offers. 9to5Mac.
It is important to remember that Mosseri announced in 2020 that the failure to develop the iPad version of the app was mainly due to the lack of sufficient resources to realize the project.
WhatsApp has started working on the development of a native iPad app for its messaging service. This comes after the development of the ability to connect Apple tablets to existing social media accounts.
While the company initially announced that an iPad app would be released in early 2022, Will Cathcart, president of WhatsApp, stated that the technology necessary to create the app was available.
But over the summer, there was relative silence regarding this development, with the focus being on implementing cross-device support for connecting to existing accounts.
Currently, within the WhatsApp beta program for iOS (TestFlight), users already have the opportunity to test the messaging application. According to the dedicated portal ‘WABetainfo’ it was designed specifically for the tablet.
You need to pair the tablet with an iPhone for it to work as a secondary device.
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