I have been thinking for a while now that Android is really the up and coming platform. This article seems to agree but is pretty conservative about it. Things it doesn’t consider is that the Android Market is just one place that apps are released. Apps can be made available other ways, such as a simple download available on the web that you then drop onto your device or accessed directly through specific URL’s.
Also in contrast to native apps there are web apps. Web-apps developed for iPhone’s mobile safari browser also run on other mobile webkit browsers like the one found on Android (and Palm’s WebOS). There is no count on those that I know of, but they are definitely growing in numbers and I suspect their popularity will be increasing dramatically. Less platform lock in is a big draw for developers. Additionally existing tools make developing mobile apps relatively easy. For example Android benefits from already existing tools like JqTouch, xUI, iUI and others
Then there is the fact that Android is starting to show up on things other than phones, like e-readers, tablets, and amazing looking reader-tablet hybrids
With 2010 just around the corner some people are sure to claim (yet again) that this will be the year for Linux to break out, and they might be right as 2010 is really shaping up to be a big year for Android.
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