I really really wish your comment was reality. I think Apple's intentional hobbling of their platform in many ways is annoying, horrible and otherwise bad. Ho

I really really wish your comment was reality. I think Apple's intentional hobbling of their platform in many ways is annoying, horrible and otherwise bad. However, android has HUGE issues still. They don't have a single platform, they have 4 (android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1) so developers have no way to hit everyone. They don't have a sound library worth a crap, their video player isn't much better, and they don't have a viable in app purchase model (although they have something good enough that it will prevent them from really making a real in app purchase API a la Apple). For people who haven't happened to sign up for a google checkout account at some time in the past, you don't even SEE paid apps in the store (and there is nothing prompting you anywhere about that fact). Flash, the version most sites use on the web, vastly trails in release time for android phones, then trails even more for the carriers to update the phones with it. For instance: http://phandroid.com/2010/02/27/what-android-phones-will-get-flash-10-1/ http://phandroid.com/2010/02/27/what-android-phones-will-get... I'd really love for your version of events to be true, but it isn't yet. --- Developer for both platforms