Couple thoughts: Developing for Android involves their odd little JVM; Objective C on a more traditional UNIX architecture is more familiar to more developers.

Couple thoughts: Developing for Android involves their odd little JVM; Objective C on a more traditional UNIX architecture is more familiar to more developers. (A development Mac is a bit of a roadblock, but not much.) The 'Apple tax' in the handheld space is negligible. It's more in line with the absolute value of 'apple tax' in the mp3 market than in the laptop market; let alone the desktop market of 1984. Being even just a little clunkier is a much bigger deal when you're talking about very short session times. But perhaps the biggest difference: Apple no longer particularly cares. If they make mad profit off the top 10% of the market, they won't waste a thought toward what's powering the other 90%.