PC World – SDK Showdown: Apple IPhone vs. Google Android
Jason Cline, a senior software engineer at Web application developer Sitepen, says that the broad differences between the iPhone and Android SDKs are related to trade-offs between greater freedom and greater accessibility.
For this blog’s audience, the key difference may be that you’re guaranteed a level playing field when you develop for iPhone, but Android will run on disparate platforms resulting in heterogenous device capabilities and quirks.