+1 on this point: "the two attract entirely different sorts of developers, and because I think Google and Apple both REALIZE that they aren't directly competing

+1 on this point: "the two attract entirely different sorts of developers, and because I think Google and Apple both REALIZE that they aren't directly competing here." on a semi-related note I really don't like people comparing Android to the iPhone. One of them is a good looking smart phone...the other one isn't even a phone. Apple has birthed a whole and completed creature, beautiful to behold. Google meanwhile has conjured up a spirit, or a virus that can latch onto any form. Google is hoping that android sticks around and reincarnates into various physical form factors which will one day out number or out-slick whatever any one single manufacturer can come up with. (Like the Nokia Morph!?) If successful it can be eventually be embedded to whatever device replaces the cell phone one day. Not that many people on the planet knows what Symbian is either, but that's okay with Nokia Ericsson et al.