jim said:
The only android permutation that I see as being "hard" are perhaps the touch variations of capacitive vs resistive vs no-touch.
well, touch-screen versus not, that's a pretty big start, isn't it? your touch-screen program won't work on a non-touch phone. the carriers spec the phones, so there are no required features, which means there are none that you can depend on to be there. and if a piece of software doesn't find all the features it needs, it's not going to end up pleasing the customer very much, is it? the first generation android phones are what?, 18 months old, and they've already been orphaned, unable to upgrade to the current version of the operating system, let alone future ones... i wish android the best of luck... apple needs a good competitor to help push along the state of the art at more than a snail's pace. i just think programming android is gonna be building on sand... -bowerbird