> “Everyone knows Instagram sucks. We made it better and got a lot of love from users. But Facebook hates its own users so much, it’s 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,” the startup said in a statement to TechCrunch.<p>This is a startup? Quite risky to build a startup on someone else's API [0], especially on Instagram's API and when it is against the App Store rules. Even before that in [1].<p>> The app still remains live on the Google Play Store. So the founders said that Android is “the clear choice for users who want privacy, freedom, and optionality.”<p>This removal shows that "privacy" is a farce to Apple, Google and Meta and they will collude and kill your startup if you are too successful in that.<p>[0] <a href="https://twitter.com/TheOGapp_/status/1574811387737407490" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/TheOGapp_/status/1574811387737407490</a><p>[1] <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/meta-says-ad-free-instagram-client-the-og-app-breaks-its-rules/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/meta-says-ad-free-instagra...</a>
Having corporations directly enforce each-other's terms & conditions is so much more efficient than the slow process of going through the courts.