In the long run, I believe this is the end of the iPhone as a dominant platform, and it will settle into the 10-15% market typical for Apple: the land of die-hard fanboiz who're willing to pay 25-50% more for hardware than it's actually worth. There are millions more C#, C++, and Java developers than there are Objective-C coders, and those developers are going to code for 'Droid first from now on, using the tools they're familiar with, then try to retrofit to the 90's toolset (IB and Objective-C) that Apple provides as an afterthought. Amusingly, Apple isn't even capable of compiling the code it dictates developers must use: the compiler is gcc.
Apple's lock-down-control-everything approach has been challenged by an open source platform once before: in the early 1980's. Apple's fail in that case is the most epic of all time: they went from market domination to "who dey?" in the space of months. Job's learned nothing and now they are going to lose again. Ironically, the only thing that really saved Apple from complete destruction in the 90's for their fascist business practices was Adobe. Now little Stevie Hitler has alienated them, too. If the FTC, SEC, or DOJ do not take action against iEvil, Adobe will.
I'm sure the fanboiz will be arriving shortly to flame away. All I can say is, I make a great living off Apple, but now that it's fallen to No. 3, I'll be making even more money from 'Droid.
Good for you.
That's what the free market economy is all about.
Closed development vs open development....no brainer for techies...