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Instagram App Deepens Class Warfare Between Apple and Android Smartphones

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Instagram was available only to iPhone owners, but now it’s on Android—and there goes the neighborhood, say snobby Apple users. Dan Lyons weighs in.

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Instagram, an insanely popular photo app on the iPhone, just became available on Google’s Android platform. That’s great news for Android fans, but some Apple users are not happy about this at all and have taken to the Interwebs to voice their disgust, posting tweets along the lines of, “Ew,...

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