what were you expecting?

folks seem to be irked re: the instagram terms of service. i don’t know what they were expecting. it’s free, polished app which requires serious ergs in terms of engineering efforts expended. instagram’s a prodigious consumer of network bandwidth and storage (those pictures aren’t trivial to store at massive scale) and folks haven’t exactly been shouldering the burden for this delivery by opening their wallets. but seriously, “awful” or as someone couched it, “shameful”?...

December 18, 2012 · steve ulrich