Instagram on its way to Android still, but is it still worth waiting For?

The iOS community loves their Instagram application. They took to the stage yesterday at SWSX and made a few announcements about the application and its status. As far as iOS is concerned, Instagram has reached 27 million registered users with a 67% of them us the app yesterday alone. Those are some pretty impressive numbers. Co-founder, Kevin Systrom wasn’t just there to talk up their success on iOS though. He also let lose a little bit of information about the app for Android.

While the app is still in a closed beta for Android, he did show off a little bit of it installed on a Galaxy Nexus. He also mentioned that “in some ways, it is better than our iOS app.” We love to hear that. He didn’t spend much time on the subject, nor did he offer up a full demo of the app running on Android though. The company has sure taken its sweet time to bring the app to its competitors platform. It has been nearly two years in the making already.

“I don’t think it took us so long. We just had priorities. Had we tried to be both on Android and iPhone at the same time, it would’ve been tough to innovate in the way that we have.”

They have been trying to build up their fan base and fame with iOS before bringing it to Android. A strategy that many other developers have tried to do in the past. In our opinion, it is one of those “sounded good at the time,’ sort of moves. After reading through hundreds of comments on various other sites this morning, it seems like the app has already lost its fizzle before it even had a chance to make its debut on Android. Many people point out the fact that Instagram’s editing features are sub par compared to apps like Camera ZOOM FX, Vignette, Lightbox or Streamzoo. With the main appeal of the app for iOS users being the ability to share it to Facebook. As Android users we already have this ability through a wide variety of applications. When the app does finally land the install rate should jump initially, but will level out fairly quickly. More of us will install it just to show our iOS counterparts that we can do it too, then show they the apps we have been using all along that do more.

We are faced yet again with a big name developers for iOS headed to Android with hopes of pulling things off on another platform. The past has already shown us that the success of an app on one platform doesn’t always mean success on ours. What do you guys think? Do we already have better applications available for our use than Instagram? Are you over the hype much like the Temple Run hype?

Source: Techcrunch