Mirrors my experience.

So much for "Open".

Google likes to dub its system as "Open", but it's only open as long as it works in Google's favour.

This is not true openness.

When something is truly open, then even development repositories are always accessible for the current version in development, let alone finished versions.

Very true.

In one of James Gosling's article's bullets about the Oracle-Google lawsuit, we find the following nugget (emphasis is mine):

Google did have a financial model that benefited themselves (that they weren't about to share). They were partly planning on revenue from advertising, but mostly they wanted to disrupt Apple's trajectory, and Apple's expected entry into advertising. If mobile devices take over as the computing platform for consumers, then Google's advertising channel, and the heart of its revenue, gets gutted. It doesn't take much of a crystal ball to see where Apple is going, and it's not a pretty picture for Google or anyone else.

Anybody who argue that Google didn't create Android to compete with Apple's iPhone, is deluding themselves.

Appcelerator has just published the results from its most recent mobile developer survey and the results shed some insight into what platforms and device types are most compelling to developers in the short term and for the long haul.

The title should be fixed to: "iOS vs Android: Appcelerator users Weigh In"

Appcelerator is used by a tiny minority of iOS developers, so this survey is very highly skewed.

I guess I'll stick to my iPhone and the curated App store eco system.