We’ve all heard stories of iPhone developers swimming in cash. Apple makes flashy commercials highlighting cool applications (”There’s an app for that”) and everybody makes money.

Almost.

Is it not easy to become an iPhone developer. You have to jump thru Apple’s hoops, program in Objective C, there is a long wait before it appears in the App Store, and even then, you DO have to market it.

The Android market could be much larger, as Android is being rolled out onto both phones and portable computer devices, like the Archos 5 Internet Tablet. Of course, now you have jump thru Google’s hoops, program in Java and, yes Virginia, you still have to market it.

NOW the Android market is a fledging market but early developers will be richly rewarded, just as early iPhone developers were. As more phones are being added, market share will increase.

Apple currently enjoys 30% of the “smart phone” business, with Blackberry controlling 39% . But as users move away from “regular phones” into smart phones, they will have only three choices: iPhone, Android or Blackberry.

Carriers can sell Android with much lower costs, and there will be a surge of users to the Android platform over the next two years. This gives you time to code up your app now, test it and release it.