that, however, also makes the whole issue moot since the images are so small to be of little/no use in any commercial sense.
flickr's iOS app, by comparison, stores on their server the full resolution image.
#nofilter FTW
The most likely scenario for Instagram photos being used in advertising would be online, not in print. So the size is fine.
How do we know that for sure?
They could easily have the full res versions stored elsewhere. They own them, after all.
They couldn't have the full res version stored elsewhere.
That's how we know.
612x612 images as ads on instagram would make a whole lot of commercial sense.
that, however, also makes the whole issue moot since the images are so small to be of little/no use in any commercial sense.
flickr's iOS app, by comparison, stores on their server the full resolution image.
#nofilter FTW