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"No, the rise of Android has everything to do with the fact that it's free, and supports many vendors, etc." As I said in my post: "its distribution as a decen

"No, the rise of Android has everything to do with the fact that it's free, and supports many vendors, etc." As I said in my post: "its distribution as a decentralized platform." You and I are not in disagreement here. I didn't say Android was a "better" platform. I said that a lot of developers consider it to be. And I went on to qualify what I meant by that, i.e., that it's got wide distribution and can be used to deploy and test rapidly. As I mentioned, it's an "opportunistic preference." I don't think developers have been alienated by Apple the way PG predicted they would be.

melling 13y ago
Why do they consider it to be better? I've done Android and iOS and iOS is a lot easier to develop software. Android is improving but Apple still wins. Anyway, that doesn't really matter either. Which market currently provides the best possibility for real income? I'll put in the extra work on Android if there are more paying customers. From a business point of view, one should be following the money and not playing "think like a geek" and rationalize it through technical issues.