What’s Taking Instagram So Long To Hit Android?

Instagram. It’s one of the iPhone’s most popular apps — 50 million users just a year after launch — probably our favourite social network, and the envy of Android users worldwide. However, at the Paris LeWeb conference today, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom announced — again — that a team is working to port the app to Android OS. Promises, promises.

The announcement was a followup to last year’s very similar announcement that Instagram was getting into the Android game. But the fact that 12 months later they haven’t progressed so far as to give a timetable isn’t promising. C’mon Instagram, my phone photos aren’t going hipsterise themselves — let’s get a move on! [Geeksugar]

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    Greg

    Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 7:52 AM

    Nobody on Android cares about it, because they have infinitely better options available already.

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      light487

      Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:35 AM

      +1

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      Josh

      Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM

      +2

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    tony

    Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:32 AM

    I would like to see better photography apps for android instead of the many novelty apps but meh couldnt care less for instagram everyone uses the same 70s style filters

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    Ben H

    Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:46 AM

    I heard a rumour that instagram receives a better % cut from the Apple App Store if they don’t make an app for android? Any truth to that?

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    Blake

    Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    What’s instagram?

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