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In Dumbest Possible Launch, Instagram’s Windows Phone App Leaves Out (Or Hides, Actually) The Photo Taking

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Update: So you technically *can* take photos with the Instagram app, but not from within it, and not in a way that makes a lot of logical sense. See Alex’s post for more on the confusion and the mistakes made on all sides, including mine.

Okay Windows Phone and Instagram, what the hell? How is it possible that you’ve *finally* launched an official Instagram client for Windows Phone, but left out photo taking (as mentioned above, photo taking is there but it’s hidden and actually routes you out of the app)? Oh what’s that? You can import photos from your library or native camera app you say. No big deal, right? Right. Unless your goal was not to make Windows Phone look like an app laggard. Which apparently it was, according to MS Windows Phone lead Joe Belfiore:

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