Google Removes the OG App from the Play Store After Apple (opens in new tab)

> “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.

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].

> 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.”

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.

[0] https://twitter.com/TheOGapp_/status/1574811387737407490

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/meta-says-ad-free-instagra...

Having corporations directly enforce each-other's terms & conditions is so much more efficient than the slow process of going through the courts.