The trend right now is to create programming platforms that are hardware agnostic. The device wars are reminiscent of the hardware and OS wars of the 60s to 80s. People had to basically reimplement the same application for every platform out there. Ultimately,
Java came in and created this notion of WORA. WORA in Java was mostly unsuccessful. However, WORA was properly realized by web applications. Nowadays, you don't build one application for Windows, and another application for Mac. You build one application that runs in the web browser, and the web browser takes care of interfacing with the underlying platform.
A similar thing is going to happen for handheld devices. As programmers, we shouldn;t need to target individual platforms. And as programmers, we should be adopting technologies that move us towards hardware agnosticism. There are couple of programming platforms available that are built on top of the device's support for Javascript. IMO,
you should be using them
One thing to note is that the hardware market for Android is dying. Since, the OS doesn't really allow one hardware manufacturer from differentiating itself from others, all they can do is compete on the price. Now, we are at a point where, it's impossible for the hardware manufacturers to make any
profit. From what I hear, HTC makes $1 on each phone. Who is going to invest in that? However, I'm sure Google is not going to let Android die, even if it means Google has to enter the hardware market itself.
