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loceng on April 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook acquires Instagram

It's for the users, to prevent a competitor from 'owning' them - Facebook could block the API, otherwise all of their competitors can still gain access to them. If Facebook does start to screw around with the API then they're destroying value to the consumer.

It's really too bad Instagram sold so soon. I hope they took mostly money.

brlewis on April 9, 2012 [–]

The API already only gives access to 612x612 images with limited metadata. All Facebook has to do is keep them from improving the API.

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