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Originally Posted by rphillips02
I hope you're right, but if I was a developer with limited resources and had the choice of making an app for Android device #1, Android device #2, or for 40 million iPhones I'd concentrate on the iPhone market. More apps attract more users, which attract more app development, and so on.
Seems that this will be a problem so the sooner people (much smarter than me) start thinking about it the sooner they can devise a solution.
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That's very true. Also consider though that there are a large number of developers who are frustrated with Apple's "review" process, and would be more than happy to switch to an open platform on which they can be assured their application will be available. True, there are a large number of Android devices, but the basic code is going to be the same for all of them.
Apps may need slight tweaks for devices like the Droid - with different screen resolutions - or slightly different versions of the Android OS, but overall most of the apps I've noticed work fine on my Droid without updates. It's nice to see that apps designed for older OS versions (for the most part) work just fine on 2.0. It's a good sign. A lot of devs have already thrown out minor updates to make their apps work with the Droid, too, and it doesn't seem to have caused too much commotion.
Overall, I think devs will be more drawn to Android now (even with all the devices) due to the open platform advantage as well as the climbing number of Android users thanks to Verizon.