Is this the same Facebook that would take a handoff approach to Instagram?
The first comment is right, currently being the keyword.
The first comment is right, currently being the keyword.
However, the most public change to Instagram that many blamed on facebook were the ToS changes that I've heard led to a non-trivial dip in engagement (the primary metric for facebook leadership):
Original Story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4936561
Response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939849
Backpedal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4950853
I have a very good friend who works at Parse, and I have nothing but deep respect and admiration for him and his work. He is well-deserving of this exit. He does not subscribe to the pessimism about the new 'facebook overlords.' I've known him long enough that I would expect him to tell me if that weren't the case.
Will facebook always keep to its PR statements? Only as long as they makes sense for their business... I'd vote 6 months to a year, personally :)
The only thing they really have done, is launched on the web (they just launched on Android a few days before the acquisition) and scaled up the Instagram team. Likewise, they also enlarged photos on Facebook itself (although that was for everyone not just Instagram) - the fact that they haven’t even given them a tab in their app shows how autonomously Facebook have let Instagram run since acquiring it etc.
Having said that, Instagram now has to play by Facebook’s rules and I expect that we’re more likely to see further integration between the two going forward this year such as advertising etc.