It's easy to love a platform that hasn't shipped yet. There's no ugly reality to interfere with your beautiful dreams. As long as Android has no paying custome

It's easy to love a platform that hasn't shipped yet. There's no ugly reality to interfere with your beautiful dreams. As long as Android has no paying customers, it's easy for it to be great. There are no tough compromises to be made. There's no battery to be drained by your resource-hungry app, and no customer to complain about that drained battery. There's no need to broker deals with carriers (who, incidentally, have stricter and stupider rules than Apple ever will), no need for effective marketing, no need to worry about market share or competitors or profits or even prices. There isn't even any need to fix your bugs. You can live happily in cloud-cuckoo-land; a place where your apps can do anything they want (take over the phone? use 85% of the available bandwidth? accidentally overwrite other application's databases?) without ethical, legal, or physical constraint; a place in which you don't even have to study anything in order to develop gorgeous, easy-to-use, insanely profitable mobile applications. Meanwhile, Apple is very, very likely to do to Android what they did to the Linux desktop: Deliver 85% of the features and 175% of the usability in a consistent, beautiful, well-marketed package that will promptly become the platform of choice for users who have any money... who, incidentally, are also the users that are most likely to spend money on third-party software.