Android is finally on its way to the top....

Ecosystem chaos in the Android operating system, being open source, gives so much freedom to hardware makers. The only thing that Google can do is make it so that certain apps show up in your market when you try to find something and not show up in your friends because of the hardware divergence. Not to mention the fact that vendors do stupid shit like with the Dell Streak, which launched with a ridiculously old version of android, and then loading unstable crapware? The fact that the hardware makers are seeing this issue and being responsible about it is only going to help android sales, since we know that the number of apps is what sells these kinds of devices. With a streamlining of form factors in general (ie. evo and thunderbolt are relatively similar in form factor), then improve the quality of internals as they become available (ie CPU, Ram amount/size, battery technology, lte/ wimax, dual band, camera, gyro ect...) but keeping the same basic design will lead to app devs to be able to write one version of the app that will work on all devices with such and such minimum specs (just too weed out extremely old tech like the htc touch), rather than writing for things with this exact screen size and resolution, or only a rear facing camera and not a front. Little things like that that drives people like me up a wall. The idea that devs like having to always be coding on one app and not move on to another app idea is ridiculous. Luckily, because of diversity, the newest 2.2/2.3 sdks have made functions that help alleviate this issue with, but unfortunately some small annoyances remain. HTC and Moto have finally stopped releasing devices that significantly differ and this eases tension put on app devs to quickly, effectively, and smoothly develop the app, get it out of beta and advertise the public launches.

Android apps are projected to surpass apple in the coming year and it is in no small way due to the manufactures finally sticking with an idea that works and building on that.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/05/android-to-surpass-apples-app-store-in-size-in-august-2011-report-exclusive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+Reader