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In the past Yahoo has butchered their acquisitions. However, Marissa Mayer is a product focused CEO. I see her doing a good job of not messing up the Tumblr experience if Yahoo acquires it.

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I think she is already trying to fix Flickr, in fact.

The iOS app, which is one of said attempts, is outright awful, so I haven't seen much of a track record to assuage my reservations about her ability to improve the offerings. Upcoming.org was also shut down in a really stupid way, regardless of whether you like the service it self.

Very reminiscent of Google's way of going about things, actually. :)

> The iOS app, which is one of said attempts, is outright awful

It has a 4.5 out of 5 star rating in iTunes.

I wonder how many of those people use it for uploading. It's so-so for just browsing (the images in the feed are - very - downsampled).

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