Whether or not Google has a responsibility isn't really the question. The fact is that developers care about two things when they decide which platforms to make

Whether or not Google has a responsibility isn't really the question. The fact is that developers care about two things when they decide which platforms to make apps on. 1) Where is the money, and 2) How easy is it to create apps on that platform. Just recently there was a blog post about a developer complaining about how hard it was to make apps on the new Blackberry tablet. So, in my mind, no Google doesn't really have a responsibility to make developers happy. But, yes they have good business reasons to: more and more people flock to the OS's with the best apps. As for whether or not these exact demands are fair or not I can't comment because I don't develop for Android, but I can definitively say Google should take heed and make sure they can continue to be seen as a developer-friendly OS. Edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2263882 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2263882 <- the HN link to the aforementioned blog post.