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So you're saying that there is an opportunity in the Android market because the apps are generally significantly worse than those in the iOS store?

Ok - so you've justified your opinion. How do you justify your offensiveness?

Why would I bother to answer a deliberately offensive comment from someone who's own posting is deeply partisan?

You don't need to register as a developer to get the command line tools.

So... Paid for alternate launchers and task switchers are the future of mobile operating systems?

> It's just crass selfishness... but here it is. Are you being sarcastic?

So you're saying Android users don't care about innovative apps? That makes this whole discussion moot.

> Apple's provisioning process on the other hand is the most painful thing I ever experienced. Your information is years out of date. In XCode, you click 'use this device for devel…

> Also, that it would cost a lot in development time to get something "just right" for the App Store for it to be accepted, whereas with Android you can keep on iterating and pushi…

> But aside from all that, this discussion is not really about quality per se. It is about figuring out your business idea, getting it right. But surely the same logic applies to t…

There are more Android apps than iOS apps, and this advantage has always been present. So, why aren't Android apps already of superior quality?

This is all predicated on the idea that you being able to release apks easily gets users who care enough too give you valuable feedback that you can use to learn and improve your a…

Where have you seen these anecdotes?

It progressively reduces their control over the products they make and hands that ever more over to Google.

The only reality that is acceptable on HN is that Google is unstoppable and benevolent to geeks. An optimistic view of their competitors counts as shilling.

Android was open as long as people did what google wanted with it. That's the antithesis of open.

Android has never been a premium brand - it's a lowest common denominator product. This is perfectly appropriate.

It's just as restrictive as any commercial license, except that instead of being prohibited from releasing the source, you are required to do so. That is not 'free to do whatever y…

The other manufacturers don't have any alternative but to stay with Google despite Motorola and the tightening noose of Play Services.

Everything in play services is most certainly not Application level. I presume you didn't read the linked article or the other comments here about the APIs that are migrating there…

Darwin is free and can be installed on any compatible devices.

That's not 'silently'.

How do you know?

And we have to assume that Google will do exactly the same thing with Chrome and Chrome OS when it is to their advantage to do so.