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Re:Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos by Smrchy on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @03:50AM (#4936634)
As soon as i read that FB was buying Instagram i quit and deleted my Instagram account. It was too predictable that something like this will happen.

Mark Zuckerberg is in a horrible position. I bet he would love to just build a cool and useful product. Instead he is damned to roll out all these awful money making features. And quick. Not only for his investors but also for the staff that owns FB stock.

How smooth could FB move along if their investors trusted them like they trust Jeff Bezos and his very long-term view.

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Re:Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos by chris_wot on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @06:15AM (#4937034)
Mark Zuckerberg made his own bed. He can't be trusted no matter what you say, just look at how Facebook handles privacy!
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Re:Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos by readme on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @04:03AM (#4936672)
You say it like they have a reason to!? Amazon had a solid plan.

I think facebook could make quite a bit of money if they charged for their developer API.

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Re:Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos by kloncks on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @04:41AM (#4936769)
What's the alternative? A cool and useful product that makes revenues how? How do you propose that Instagram actually make money?

Not attacking. Just wanted to hear more specific thoughts.

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Re:Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos by richardjs on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @10:28AM (#4937886)
Would it be viable to let users opt-in to selling their photos, with users and Instagram splitting the money? That seems to be a system that would appeal to both sides.
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Re:Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos by rkwz on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @04:44AM (#4936782)
Flickr, deviantART model - Freemium
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Re:Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos by artursapek on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @03:53AM (#4936643)
How smooth could FB move along if their investors trusted them like they trust Jeff Bezos and his very long-term view.

I never looked at it that way. Great thought.

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Re:Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos by wilfra on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @04:32AM (#4936736)
Trust is earned. Zuck hasn't earned it yet. Not in the eyes of Wall Street.

Look what Bezos had to go through to get where he is today: http://i.imgur.com/2ie9t.png

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Re:Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos by btilly on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @03:35PM (#4939453)
It should be noted that Bezos also had significant bond issues that nobody thought they could make payments on. They were down in the junk bond basement. If he had failed to make those payments, Amazon would have become yet another failed dot com, just like eToys. (Which went out of business while making a profit - just not enough profit to make bond payments on excess warehousing purchased because they overestimated growth for 2000 after underestimating it in 1999.)
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Re:Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos by uvTwitch on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @04:48AM (#4936790)
Sounds like the Eyes of Wall Street will end up sinking Facebook if they're not careful.
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