The web development world can learn a lesson here about keeping developers happy with their platform.  On the flip side of the development world, many people are unhappy with Apple and the iPhone development.  Tim Bray, the well-known software architect and blogger, is joining Google to help rally even more developers around the Android mobile operating system.

Bray is the co-inventor of the XML Web standard, and most recently worked at Sun Microsystems. In a blog post, he explains that he is drawn to Google in part because he hates the iPhone, or at least its closed and controlling environment from a developer’s perspective.

Read the rest of the story here.  It is an interesting insight on what you need to do to keep a developer of any kind, happy.