No, it's not like developing for the PC. Even on weakest PC you can count on some reasonable display resolution. You can lay out your main screen, toolbars and dialogs without much thinking can the user see them entirely, and in 99% cases everything will be fine. Did you ever tried to design your app to look usable and good on all available Android resolutions - 240x320, 320x480, 480x800, whatever resolution Droid uses and now on tablets? Yes, there's some scaling support built into Andriod layouts, but it's not a miracle.

BTW, it's not all unicorns and roses on PC also - did you ever tried to start reasonably complex application on netbook? Even browser is mostly unusable in non-fulscreen mode.

Here (Belgrade, Serbia) we have a system that works for years: you can buy the ticket, more or less exactly as described, or you can pay for the parking with the mobile phone - just send the SMS with the licence plate number, and you're good.

Which Google's application run native? All major applications on Android (Messaging, Dialer, Contacts, Music, etc) are Java applications, and you can get their source code (I'm trying to do some Android programming when I have time, and I learned a lot from Google's applications).

I'm expecting from Microsoft to file a complaint versus Apple demanding inclusion of IE on every iPhone and iPod.

Dude, I'm talking about freaking NOTEBOOK. You know, the thing that's always with me and the thing I'm expecting to have decent screen resolution and good DPI. Especially when it costs over $2K.

Don't get me wrong - I don't have that big Apple monitor but geek in me wants that ability. I also want a simple way to connect with Space Shuttle and probably with LHC, but first and foremost - we're talking about overpriced notebook that doesn't even have an option to upgrade very mediocre screen resolution.