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Google’s unhappy Android developers
Macworld — ... market,” he says. Casey Borders, an independent Android developer in Columbus, Ohio, warns that Google will have to work hard to retain developer loyalty and attract new developers to its platform. “The Android platform has a very strong base and a lot of potential, but it also has a lot of competition,” he warns. The Android SDK controversy At the heart of the developers’ discontent is the status of the Android Software Developers Kit (SDK). In July, Google announced that the latest SDK would be released first to the 50 winners of its Android Developer Challenge (ADC), a ...

Google Android flaws pushing software firms towards iPhone
AppleInsider — ... about the appeal of Android to programming teams, who with the open-source platform can write virtually any app for Android-based devices by getting direct access to code that governs even basic hardware functions. The issue is largely known to have come to a head in mid-July, when Google unintentionally revealed that it has been favoring the winners of a developers' contest with advance releases of Android's Software Developer Kit, exposing them to newer features and bug fixes ahead of the general community. Those outside the privileged circle, both then and now, have ...

Opinion: iPhone trumps Android
Macworld — ... . And with complete control of the hardware, Apple can push out complete upgrades to every user simultaneously, whenever they want or need to. Android will out of necessity have a more limited upgrade cycle to allow the phone manufacturers to implement and test new code; manufacturers who also have other non-Android phones to deal with as well. On the negative side though, Apple certainly suffers from control issues, but Google is not innocent either when it comes to that. Apple could go a long way toward more openness and relations with developers, and they should. Google -- ...