Seeing that one Android device has an app and that another does not, doesn’t give a lot of confidence in the platform. With all the choices out there, you never know if you’re purchasing a device that will run the same apps that another Android device does. What is the point in that?

At this point forget anything below ICS.

OR…. you may actually have a good platform that already incorporates this functionality so that developers do not have to worry about it.

Windows runs on zillions of combinations of monitors/videocards/nics/usb devices/ etc… Have you ever heard any developer having to issue multiple versions of their apps for each hardware combination? Windows Phone supports many different resolutions and hardware capabilities? Was there ever a need to publish multiple apps for different phones? iOS also has different (although much limited) devices with different resolutions and processors.

Android is a disgrace. It is a cancer, plague of the industry. It is surviving because it is “free” (as in beer) (well not even that with all the patent violations) and must be eliminated before it brings back dark ages.