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Re: photos team & snap

Mark Zuckerberg to Justin Shaffer, September 8, 2011

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From
Mark Zuckerberg
Sent
Thursday, September 8, 2011 11:00 PM
To
Justin Shaffer
Cc
Jocelyn Goldfein, Mike Schroepfer, Chris Cox
Subject
Re: photos team & snap
So when is the app going to ship? If you're asking whether it's important to ship soon, then the answer is definitely yes. In the time it has taken us to get out act together on this Instagram has become a large and viable competitor to us on mobile photos, which will increasingly be the future of photos.
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About this email

Facebook's photos team was building a standalone mobile photo app code-named Snap, and Justin Shaffer had written that it was delayed. Zuckerberg replied late on September 8, 2011.

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