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Developers are increasingly favouring Android
<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/developers-favor-android-as-paid-app-support-comes-to-more-countries/2503>:

Herein, of course, lies the developers’ dilemma. Do you develop on a
tight, well-loved OS for a large market (i.e., Apple’s iOS) or do you
develop in Android’s Wild West, navigating multiple hardware and
software platforms and many versions of the Android OS to potentially
reach a much larger audience?

Rewind 20 years, and the question could have been rephrased as

Herein, of course, lies the developers’ dilemma. Do you develop on a
tight, well-loved OS for a large market (i.e., Apple’s Macintosh) or do
you develop in Microsoft’s Wild West, navigating multiple hardware and
software platforms and many versions of the DOS/Windows OS to
potentially reach a much larger audience?

We all know how that earlier one turned out...