Apple can still claim top spot in terms of US market share, according torecent data from Nielsen, but its lead is rapidly vanishing in Android's wake.
This means that developers increasingly are going to need to choose the platform they should develop for first, and the answer seems increasingly to be Google's open web.
Android introduces complexity for developers, unlike Apple's iOS: it forces them to think about hardware fragmentation, among other things. It comes with a good app store experience, but not nearly as professionalized as Apple's. There are blemishes throughout the experience.
And yet it continues to win, claiming 40 per cent of new handset shipments in the last six months, according to Nielsen data:
