Although I agree with Jason Ankeny’s article over at Fierce Developer, “Five things all iPhone and Android developers need to know“, I think he misses one very important key feature that Google’s Android platform has over the iPhone.  And that is giving developers the ability to create and run background processing.  This is important to developers because it allows for more seamless client-server communication.

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This is totally my own opinion and I don’t expect anyone to agree, but I feel that Google will do much better with Android Market then Apple does with its app store.  I believe this because Google intentionally created a mediocre (albeit functional) end user experience for the Android mobile platform whereas Apple slaved long hours perfecting the iPhone’s core applications.  This is by no means meant to diminish the effort by Google’s engineers, whom I greatly respect, nor do I have any proof for the previous statement (I’m sure the Google developers had many a long night and weekend), but if you will give me a couple moments of your precious time I will lay down why I believe this is a better position for Google to take.

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