Ever since they launched on October 2010, Instagram has been a huge hit for iOS users and sparks the envy for its competing platform Android and Blackberry. That feel of “exclusivity” rhymes perfectly with Apple’s branding for its products compared to their competitors.

After almost two years and 27 millions users later, founder Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger finally decided to expand its service to the envious Android users. Of course some people came up with photo editing apps for Android with that Instagram feel, a few apps such as Vignette, PicPlz and Camera360. Technically speaking (and feature-wise), these apps are just as good (if not better) apps compared to Instagram. But then again, Instagram is famous for the things it doesn’t have. And yes, that includes an Android native app.

At least that’s what most marketing analyst thinks.

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