( CNN ) -- Seriously , iPhone fans ? Just hours after Instagram , a mobile app that lets users layer pre-programmed filters over their photos to achieve maximum hipness , launched on Google 's Android operating system Tuesday , the snark began . Until then , the 18-month-old app had been exclusive to Apple devices . `` Instagram went from a gated community to section 8 all in 1 day , '' wrote Twitter user @ joelby1328 . That widely shared message ( surrounded by other gems such as `` I 'm smoking with a ( expletive ) newbie ! She still has other people light her bowl for her ! ! ! '' ) was as good a representative as any of a surprising number of tweets suggesting , or downright saying , that Android phone users are in some way inferior to iPhone owners . More than 1 million Android users downloaded the app in the first 24 hours , and it became the talk of the town online . According to one analysis , there were 719,874 Twitter mentions of Instagram and Android within the first 24 hours of the app 's release . Many of them were n't exactly complimentary . `` With Instagram for Android I can upload photos of abandoned beers on the backs of bar toilets RIGHT from my mobile phone ! '' said a user whose screen name wo n't be repeated here . In fairness , even thousands of comments only represent a tiny portion of the folks who own iPhones , iPads or iPods with Web capabilities . But they highlight one of the Internet 's most enduring ( and some would say annoying ) geek fights . Conflict-minded Apple fans argue that Android phones are less slick and uglier , and that they junk up the system with low-quality apps generated in its open developer community . Android diehards counter that many Apple fans will blindly buy up anything the company produces and that the closed iOS system stifles creativity . `` And that 's the most remarkable takeaway of this phenomenon , I think : that which smartphone we own has begun to inform our identities , '' wrote CNET 's Emily Dreyfuss . `` In our gadget-filled lives , our phones have become another way for us to organize ourselves into separate groups , to label each other as 'other ' and 'apart . ' Our tech has come to define us . '' While there 's definitely a `` first world problem '' aspect of squabbling about smartphones , as Android continues to grow in market share , there may in fact be a class-war element at work here . Apple offers one iPhone , with a price tag that ranges up to $ 399 and , in many cases , with an expensive monthly data plan to go with it . Android , meanwhile , is available on a wide range of phones . While there are certainly some high-end models , such as the new phone-tablet hybrid Samsung Galaxy Note , Android also runs on cheaper , less-advanced phones and on discount carriers instead of the handful of Apple-approved networks that the iPhone can access . `` So while there is often a tinge of irony or the hahahaha-colored patina of UGH in the proclamations of iPhone users disgusted by the idea of the Android barbarians at the gate , '' wrote Matt Buchanan at BuzzFeed , `` under the surface is a more general tension between a population that tends to be more affluent and often manifests that affluence as a form of taste ... and one of the masses , a population filled with some segments that , generally speaking , have less of a voice in culture already , particularly in technology . '' Here 's hoping that the app snobbery soon fades . One sign of hope ? Maybe Apple and Android fans can band together in the face of a common enemy . Wrote Twitter user @ KidCheeno : `` Android and iPhone on Instagram while BlackBerry just sits in the corner and cries . ''
Instagram launches on iPhone , prompting snide comments from some Apple owners . Twitter lit up with `` there goes the neighborhood '' -style tweets . Instagram is an app that lets users enhance their photos with various filters . It had been available only for Android devices for monthly .