Google is not the only one bleeding devs for their phone platform, Apple is also facing developper exodus :
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/1...ssively-popular-iphone-app-quits-the-project/
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/11/respected-developers-fleeing-from-app-store-platform.ars
Kind of disapointing Macrumors chooses to report on the competition, but not the iPhone itself. It's not like Apple is fairing any better.
Wait, this is different than 1 Android developper... how exactly ?
Gameloft is 1 dev, Apple has more (read the article from Ars I posted, they actually list a lot more than 2 developpers).
Stop fanboying and read. Apple is having as much problems as Android, as Palm as whoever. The thing is people are now realising that mobile apps aren't a goldmine on any platform. The gold rush is over for everyone.
You're wrong, here's why:
1) Palm is a dying company, unable to release a successful product. Their sales are dwindling and their quarterly losses are increasing. Apple, on the other hand, has created a product so wildly successful that the rest of smart phone market is scrambling to imitate it. The only comparison to be made between these two companies vis a vis mobile phones is that one has succeeded while the other has failed. A glance at the financials of both companies will reinforce this point. One is trying to keep up with skyrocketing sales while the other is trying to stave off bankruptcy. So, no, to put it mildly Apple does not have the same problems as Palm.
2) Android has a number of problems that are endemic to the OS itself and therefore are not shared by the iPhone. First, it's crippled by having only 512MB of application storage. That's a pretty severe limitation even for general purpose mobile computing and essentially rules it out as a gaming platform. Second, as a freely licensed and open source OS, the ever increasing number of hardware variations and carrier customizations add a level of complexity that doesn't exist on the iPhone (yes, there are iPhone variations, but far fewer of them). Third, with no guarantee that new versions of Android will work on existing handsets, there will be quite a few different versions floating around at any given time. This adds the problem of OS diversity to the problem of hardware diversity, resulting in a large number of combinations that need to be supported (particularly a problem for indy developers). Another, not frequently mentioned problem with Android is it's use of Google's Dalvik VM. Dalvik runs interpreted bytecode with no JIT compilation, making it quite slow by modern standards. Natively compiled Android apps are possible but they require the use of a separate SDK. By comparison, the iPhone has a single SDK that produces fast, natively compiled code and allows you to drop down to C and C++ where needed.
People I know who've used a Droid side by side with an iPhone say that the performance difference is noticeable, especially in terms of UI responsiveness (a conclusion also reached in
this review on Gizmodo). While the performance of Dalvik will get better over time, it's unlikely to ever match the speed and efficiency of native code on the iPhone. Performance problems at the very core of a platform are far more significant than problems with an application review policy. So, contrary to your opinion, Android has a number of intractable problems that the iPhone does not have.
3) Regarding developer abandonment: the announcement by Gameloft represents a measurable loss of development resources for Android. If other companies follow suit, it will have a significant, negative impact on Android's future. By comparison, a few indy developers leaving the iPhone makes no difference, and calling it an "exodus" is laughable. Like most things Apple-related, developers who publicly criticize the platform receive a disproportionate amount of coverage. That shouldn't be mistaken for an actual trend.
By all measures, the iPhone development community is very healthy and growing by leaps and bounds. The number of independent developers, commitments by software companies and the number of app submissions all continue to grow at an almost alarming rate. The nascent Android development community, on the other hand, hasn't yet demonstrated an ability to generate profits and has already suffered the public defection of a large game development company. Interpreting those entirely different sets of circumstances as "the same problems" requires more than a little magical thinking.
Motorola Droid/Milestone has higher resolution among other attributes that puts it ahead of the iPhone, but because it's made by Apple.... (your above statement). 
