On the openness of Android.

Could be said in 2 words. MARKETING BULLSHIT

Ok forgive the profanity, but it really twists my undies when vacuous marketing drivel gets taken as technical arguments.

ANDROID IS ONLY OPEN TO THE CARRIERS PERIOD. Since when could a user do anything they want to their android? The CARRIERS dictate what users can and cannot do. ANDROID IS CLOSED to the end user.

Android is open to the developer. Again BULLSHIT. Google is starting to crack down a bit on this. A lot has been written about Android fragmentation, and it is a real problem. Google is finding this as well and is starting to consolidate and crack down. iOS is also open to the developer. The only real difference is that Apple has a big, hairy, gun-toting, cigar-chomping guard at the door to its app store. Sure the approval process is totally opaque, somewhat arbitrary, and a pain in the ass, but I can be sure that the iPhone app from CHASE bank really connects to CHASE bank and not a site somewhere in China or Russia. The approval process is the reason that people actually BUY stuff from Apple app store and not Android Market Place. I develop for both and Android is not worth the effort. the Bazar is full of Junk, Rats, Fleas and Thieves.

A lot has been written that Apple users are more sophisticated, affluent and willing to buy stuff than Android users. BULLSHIT card again. Hang out at ATT or Verizon or where ever both phones are sold. See what kind of people are buying smart phones. Not Rocket Scientists ... Just plain ordinary unwashed public! If this argument was true then why isn't RIM selling a ton of apps! Obviously BlackBerry users should be in the top of "Sophisticated" user class. So why aren't they on top of revenue for app developers?