Google's Killer App: DIY Mobile Development For Android

Hmm.... While it's a smart thing, I don't see Apple worrying about it. While Inventor faces the problem that iStuff users are less and less computer-acculturated by making development simpler, I don't see tons of people interested in developing an app, even when the task is simpler; 99.9% (I don't know how many decimal digits follow) of people want to use apps, not write them (just consider how tiny is the fraction of people who spend a few seconds to give you a star or a comment on the stores, figure it out how few would be attracted by the idea of working on it).

Thus, I see Inventor as a way to have more developers, have people talking about Android in schools and colleges, all good stuff, but not more people buying Android because of it. To sell more Android, manufacturers should rather focus on a) cooler graphic design of devices (just yesterday we was discussing at my local JUG that only the Nexus One come reasonably close to the coolness of iPhone design, while other appliances such as the Motorola Droid, that are technically excellent, are extremely poor in this respect) and b) more advertisement about the Android brand (outside the USA).