You might have done more research than me on this, i.e. it's possible that this particular Android device doesn't actually allow it, but generally speaking you

You might have done more research than me on this, i.e. it's possible that this particular Android device doesn't actually allow it, but generally speaking you actually can do some amount of Android development on an Android device: You can install the Android scripting environment and Python for Android, and hack up Python Android apps right on the phone. I don't mean to necessarily dispell your argument, though. I fully agree with you that it's really important that the computers we put into people's hands continue to be sustainable, i.e. that they're not just consumption devices but also allow the creation of programs. I probably wouldn't be a software developer today if my computer growing up had been an iPad, say. Just that I think that of the current crop of smartphone platforms, Android probably comes closest to allowing and enabling hacking.