It's not a valid point in the slightest. He's suggesting that just because he hasn't heard of the service then no one should bother reading about it regardless of whether they're interested or not. I don't give a shit if he doesn't know about it as it literally adds nothing to the conversation.

Do you have an example of this? I've never had this problem, I don't think. Are you talking about the "Sort" function for the news feed where it's automatically set to "Top Stories" (posts that have been deemed most popular by how many comments/likes they attract), but users have to manually set it to "Most Recent" in that it displays all posts in chronological order regardless of popularity?

Also the fact that he's been living in Singapore for the past two years adds strength to his defense.

How very interesting, please do go on.

Even so, I'd bet that it would be a hard task to migrate 30 million people when a lot of them have already invested so much time into the app (I'm sure some would have hundreds, if not thousands, of photos tied to their account). Also, a lot of celebrities use Instagram which definitely has a lot of pulling power for certain groups of people (much like Twitter).

Is Instagram worth $1 billion? I'd say definitely not, but I can understand why he'd rather buy them out instead of creating a similar app.

You have no idea what kind of person the term "hipster" refers to, do you?

Cash and shares. I'm pretty sure the split has been kept private though.

It's one thing creating an Instagram clone but it's another thing attracting the ~30 million members to use it. If Facebook created their own Instagram there's every chance it could turn out like Google+. Why compete with something when you can just consume it?

Make it look like a Michael Bay film. Explosions, asteroids, big tittied women, and transformers... Can't go wrong.

I think there is a certain substance present in not just famous paintings, but all great paintings. Is it mystic? Probably not. But I know that I'd prefer looking at the real thing in a gallery over looking at a highly detailed photograph. Just knowing that the product you're looking at was actually created by hand by someone ~500 years ago has a great deal of worth to a lot of people, and it certainly should in my opinion.

Why destroy an existing work of art in hope of finding one that might not be there? Seems pretty obvious to me...

Yes. AC is a twat.

Pfft, if they're so smart then where the hell are they now?

The Mayans didn't factor in the leap year, so by their calculations the world should have ended months ago.

Check out Bandcamp. iTunes or Amazon aren't the do all and end all of online music stores.