There's no doubt android will be everywhere eventually -- in a laundry machine, toaster, microwave, etc. However, whether android becomes an actual competitor

There's no doubt android will be everywhere eventually -- in a laundry machine, toaster, microwave, etc. However, whether android becomes an actual competitor to iOS is still undecided. App developers on the iOS platform still make around 40x more than android, so companies jumping on that platform right now will most certainly lose money initially. A few friends of mine run their own ISV producing around 5-10 apps for the iPhone a year and are able to make a decent living (around 100-200k a year). If they focused on android, they'd only be making around 3-5k a year, definitely not enough to be independent! I think it's too easy to pirate and return apps on android, plus the App market not quite as globally available as iOS. Users on android are too accustomed to downloading free apps -- if it's not free, users don't download it. There are too many steps involved in buying an app, there needs to be far less steps involved so it can be an impulse buy. One also can't do fancier sales models like in-app purchases that the iOS is capable of doing. I really wish well for android, but I feel like Google just doesn't know marketing & sales like Apple does.