favicon Instagram, Snapchat, and the difference between $1 billion Facebook bucks vs simply being cloned

  • iMore Dec 23, 2012, 11:09 am by: Rene Ritchie282 pts
    iMore writes, Facebook's new, Snapchat-like timed messaging (widely held to be sexting) app, Poke was coded in only 12 days, and part of that code was reportedly written by Facebook's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg himself. Why is Facekbook telling and/or leaking that backstory? Josh Constine of TechCrunch writes: We heard Facebook made attempts to buy [Snapchat], but the team wanted to stay independent. That’s when Facebook and Zuckerberg went into hacker mode. With just a few weeks until Apple stopped accepting submissions of new apps before Christmas, it would take a sprint to get Poke built in time.…

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