So, today I learned that many Android developers are a) stopping development or b) jumping over to wp7 (since it was rooted today) in the wake of the on-going Oracle, Google lawsuit. After all, why build an app with a java back-end when, anywhere between today and next year, java may not even exist on Android for reasons not at all technical.
The perspectives from various senior developers in different companies goes like this.
* Even if Java wasn't dead, how do you compare development of Silverlight to Android?
* Google can't afford to let this happen. They'll just write a big check... and then drop Java.
* You're seriously thinking of leaving Android for Microsoft or Apple?
* What market share is Android likely to hold when Visual Studio is shipping with all the base tools required to do WP7 apps and is giving away VS?
* Will Eclipse exist in another year?
Insane as it sounds, I have a new plan that involves Android. The plan?
The Red Saint 2.0.
