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Title: Apple Marketing SVP Phil Schiller Thinks Instagram "Jumped The Shark" After Android Launch?
Post by: HCK on April 20, 2012, 03:00:28 am
Apple Marketing SVP Phil Schiller Thinks Instagram "Jumped The Shark" After Android Launch?
      



      9to5Mac claims Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller told a fan that the uber-popular photography app Instagram "jumped the shark" after it launched an Android version.



Schiller recently deleted his Instagram account and a 9to5Mac reader noticed this and asked why he had deleted it.



In a direct message, Schiller reportedly replied:

It "jumped the shark" when it went to AndroidInstagram's Android app launched two weeks ago and the app was previously picked as the iPhone App of the Year in 2011. Instagram was just purchased by Facebook for $1 billion.


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http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/19/apple-marketing-svp-phil-schiller-thinks-instagram-jumped-the-shark-after-android-launch/