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A couple of weeks ago, Apple removed the OG App from its app store, and today Google followed suit, booting the app from its platform as well. And I\u2019m left scratching my head wondering what the end game was for the founders of the OG App.<\/p>\n
As far as I can tell, the company basically made a new version of Instagram that strips the advertising out, and brings back the non-algorithmic feed. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I would love that, but there\u2019s no universe in which it was going to be a good idea to essentially steal a bunch of content from Meta (n\u00e9e Facebook), repackage it and feed that content to users. You see, businesses have to make money, and in the case of Instagram, that means showing advertising to its users.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone knows Instagram sucks. We made it better and got a lot of love from users. But Facebook hates its own users so much, it\u2019s willing to crush an alternative that gives them a clean, ad-free Instagram. Apple is colluding with Facebook to bully two teenagers who made Instagram better,\u201d the startup said in a statement to for Ivan\u2019s story.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s where I\u2019m just left shaking my head \u2014 that isn\u2019t hating your users, that is protecting the only way you have to make money. Literally any company in the world would fight to protect its bottom line, and stealing wholesale from a mega-corporation with a $360 billion market cap is not a great way to build a startup.<\/p>\n
The app \u2014 and its tens of thousands of downloads \u2014 does illustrate one thing though, which is that people are getting pretty bored of Instagram\u2019s ad-heavy business, and according to Sarah\u2019s recent reporting, things are going to get a lot worse. But if you don\u2019t like it, your option is to stop using the offending platform and switch to another.<\/p>\n
The people behind the OG App will be extraordinarily lucky if it turns out that getting the app yanked from the app stores is the worst thing that happens to them, and as much as I want to encourage young entrepreneurs, I\u2019m really confused why nobody around them stopped them for long enough to say \u201cuhm, maybe this isn\u2019t a great idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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